Notices by Lord Guysbert de Fieri (inspectorcaracal@tootplanet.space), page 46

@jaycie Giving the polling subscription to accounts on it a specific end datetime instead of a duration-until-refresh would do that last point nicely. Couple it with taking the instance off the network right before the predetermined subscription end time and it should let the subscriptions expire painlessly.

I don't know if that subscription-based method is universal within the fediverse, though, I dunno enough about how other software on it works.

@LilFluff @Anke @skysailor @daHob yes, I know, which is why actually declaring war would be so significant.

@aldersprig yeah it's annoying as heck and worried me the first time it happened - it's happened several with my fingers, I think? Not sure I'd notice it in other joints? but it always has gone away on its own eventually. Can't tell you how long it takes because it's one of those things where I stop noticing it because it's gone and then I realize it's gone some indeterminate amount of time later

@skysailor @daHob my question was more about the definition of war, rather than whether we were actually at war. >.> "war over Twitter" COULD just be an internet Social Media thing

@Anke @skysailor @daHob Not exactly - the prez could feasibly trigger a war, maybe, if the other country was itching for it, but Congress has to actually declare war.

@aldersprig that's actually happened to me before. I'm not sure what causes it.

@aldersprig you sure, cause if you just want like a short thing you can give me some more input and i can do a new thing

@daHob uuuuuugh

@aldersprig haven't

*thinks* I won't get there for a while, then

@daHob literally same

@daHob wait do you mean real war

@aldersprig noooo but decisions

@zatnosk @thiskurt @aldersprig considering how much I'm online, I am the eCal

@aldersprig in something I'm already doing or something new?

@Gargron I'm trying to think if showing, say, the 10 most recently used unique hashtags in a given timeline column, regardless of frequency, would get booed for the same reasons as trending hashtags. I think it would avoid most of the complaints, but still give people a quick way to see what other people are talking about - which is the function that trending hashtags serve.

@Gargron I'm not surprised. >.>

The thing is, a lot of people ask for features because they're used to seeing it, not because it's a valuable addition, or because they haven't thought about what they actually are getting out of it. So in the case of trending hashtags, what do you get out of it? You see what people are talking about right then.

The thing is, on Mastodon, that's what looking at the local and federated timelines is for... ooooh, I had a thought

@Gargron What I think could be valuable is finding out what those people who are saying content discovery is too difficult are expecting the content discovery to actually be like. What kind of content are they expecting to discover, and how do they want to be seeing it?

@oct2pus @Gargron what that really means is "my friends are still talking about stuff on twitter and I don't want to be left out"

@Gargron I have yet to figure out what that Extra Well would actually *be*, though, or I'd have given suggestions ages ago. 😓