Poorly designed, high functioning automations
Yeah, I noticed that too. I’m not sure if that’s just due to that being local content and maybe mirroring remote content is slowed down with all the new activity and instances coming online. I also see in user settings a text box for “Featured Magazines” but I can’t find any documentation on what/how that works. I would figure it would prioritize those mags, but I’m not sure of anything yet.
I read their post explaining the decision, but it seems like it is at odds with itself. If your goal is to create a safe space, why are you using a federated service? I understand you have the option to defederate, but at that point why didn’t you just setup a standalone message board. It just feels that their use case doesn’t fit the system.
Is that something we can already do or do you mean that as an idea? That’s a neat idea if so. I don’t think a user’s subscription page is locked out, so might be neat to replace the random mag block with newly updated subscribed mags via greasemonkey script or something.