Not only would I like to not hear about any of the assholes or shitty crap going on for a week, id like to not talk about them either. Is it even possible?
Not for like censorship reasons but for more mental health and logic reasons. Do people’s moods improve? Is more interesting and funny content generated? Does the media/news algorthym absolutely shit itself?
Yes yes I’m sure you can filter out what you don’t want to see personally and what not blah blah blah, but I mean for us. All of us. Maybe we just need to ignore the fuccbois for a bit. Imagine a world without them
Nope, people will not be going along with that. I guarantee it.
Blocking even a decent fraction of all the shrilly political ragebait here takes real work, it’s no wonder it’s going to hell.
I would guess that it’s possible to do automated sentiment analysis on text and then provide sort/filter options ranking posts by level of upset.
Hmm.
I suppose that someone might try to abuse that by going to a post and then just posting a bunch of upset comments, get the post hidden.
Maybe do it at the comment level.
I bet if we build just the right collection of electronics, code, and the iron will to proceed, we could get 100 instance admins to control humanity in vats and feed preprocessed junk information into their brains. It could be like a nightmare, but a nightmare we control!
It’s probably easier to just start curating a bunch of filters - I already wrote a couple as a hacky instance block, because that functionality is unavailable on kbin.