@dansup yeah, pls opt-in only, thx

@dansup Reblogs are a fantastic mechanism for discovering new content. It's a form of content discovery "algorithm" that leverages genuine intelligence (rather than AI). I usually enjoy the photos reblogged by people whose photos I like. It's definitely necessary to have an option to disable reblogs for those who don't like it. It's also crucial to have an algorithm that removes duplicates - in my opinion, a post reblogged by multiple people should only appear once on the timeline.

@dansup Started using Pixelfed yesterday, great work on the platform! 👏

That said, I think it would be better to focus on photos and leave text content for other platforms.

@dansup One of the things I dislike about Instagram is that you can't share images from others that you like. That is in part how you build communities and help people find other artists. If I can't do that, there's no obvious advantage to being federated or social. SmugMug, SquareSpace, etc, offer robust tools for a small fee. The only reason I use IG is because friends and family use it.

@dansup add option to filter out text-only-toots or make them visually attractive with colors and nice fonts (probably doesn't work for very long toots).

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Maybe only in a dedicated feed rather than in the home feed?

@dansup I personally would not want to see loads of posts from accounts I’m not following on PixelFed. I’d wouldn’t introduce Reblogs (or give users a setting to disable it) and leave the discovery of new content to the Discovery tab.

Maybe allow people to share posts to their Stories like in Instagram.

@dansup Nothing wrong with reblogs. If I were to decide for all, I’d enable them and let folks filter them out, if they want.

I think more discovery is better than less discovery.

@dansup make it an opt in -- for me it really makes context reading easier