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chigbarg
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Someone told me there are user scripts that can change the way the site works? One of my biggest hurdles for adopting Cohost is that there is a lot of repeated content I have to scroll past. Any time a post takes off, it means I have to scroll past the same, often very long, post many many times while going through my timeline, which turns me off the site entirely because it's a serious chore to find the things I'm interested in.

Is there a way to

  1. collapse all posts or posts over a certain length, so that every post has a fixed height that's easy to scroll past
  2. hide or collapse re-posts that I've already seen, so I can just read it once and not have to scroll past it again?

I think I would love the community of this place, and twitter continues to make me want to gnaw my arms off due to the bad things I have to see, but the short-form nature of it works really well for my ADHD. I'd like to move to this more wholesome place but it feels like a major struggle to find anything I'm interested in, despite having friends here.


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in reply to @chigbarg's post:

that was my biggest gripe coming here. the deduplicator @cofruitrigus mentioned isn't perfect but absolutely helps! and the bits that slip through, I've honestly gotten used to; or at least, I'm happy enough with the site otherwise that it's not a deal breaker. (note: it doesn't work on Android Chrome without rootkit shenanigans. which got me to install Firefox, lol.)

collapsing long posts by default is supposed to happen — I've seen it with my own sometimes — but apparently there's a CSS trick to prevent it (and maybe sometimes it just doesn't work). that's likely to see improvement once the devs have more breathing room.

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oh shit hi evelyn! hope you stick around! 💜

I've honestly just don't follow those who share a lot (despite them making good stuff) because my time line gets cluttered. But then, without following people who share, it's hard to discover new people. Personally, I'm also very worried about sharing, especially if something is already getting popular, because then I don't want to clog up people's time lines!

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