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comment by syncretic

In all seriousness, I would love to create a personal hub devoted to high-quality photography similar to The SFWPorn Network on reddit, and add users to that hub who primarily submit such content. I just thought of something, though, I wouldn't be able to share anything from any hub other than my main one unless I wanted those submissions to go out to all of my existing followers, and I've been doing pretty well so far by concentrating mainly on articles & discussion, with a few #science or #futurology videos thrown in for good measure. That's what I would like my hubski experience to be centered around, and what I want to share with the followers I have now. Perhaps this is one of the flaws I hadn't considered at first... I will think about it more. Making a new account might be the way to go after all. mk, is there any sort of official policy on alternate accounts? I can't remember if I've asked you that before, so apologies if I have.

It might be preferable to simply create alt accounts to focus on starkly different groups of content, for example I could create one for high quality photography, I could create one for humor & general silliness, and I could create one devoted to music videos & other musical content. A greasemonkey scripts that allows easily switching between accounts would be very useful for this. I could even name them things like "syncreticjerk," "syncretic-photography" and "syncretic-music" so people who enjoy my taste in news & discussion could also follow my other accounts - but would that be too close to creating the equivalent of subreddits to subscribe to, except that all the content is curated by the account owner?

If anyone has an opinion about this topic, please don't hesitate to share it.





b_b  ·  4362 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Alt accounts are probably the easiest and best way to get the features you want. All the mechanism is in place; no updates are required. There is no policy on alt accounts.

kjoneslol  ·  4362 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The hastags are cool but it's kind of lame that you can't subscribe to them anymore. But, it would be cool if you could ignore tags within a user or follow tags within a user. So if you want to follow me but you don't want all that korean music from me you could follow me but uncheck korean music. That way you get all this kjoneslolsyness without the oppa oppa. I guess that might be the same as ignoring the tag on a global scale but I don't know, I don't like ignoring things flat out.

Or you could just kind of YouTube it, so you totally personalize your feed by picking which tags you do and don't want. Although, I think I'm focusing too much on tags when you can't even follow them anymore...maybe I just really want to follow tags...

I'm still trying to figure this place out.

GodOfAtheism  ·  4362 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If I don't want to follow #kpop then I would just ignore #kpop. Then if you post with that tag I still don't see it.

kjoneslol  ·  4362 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I know, I'm just butthurt because I want to follow tags.

GodOfAtheism  ·  4362 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Completely understandable really. Seems kind of silly to have to go find a bunch of people who post about hats when you can just follow #hats.

kjoneslol  ·  4362 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Plus, most people are pretty diverse. I doubt you want to see everthing from everybody you follow.

kreius  ·  4362 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, who wants to see m #ImGoingToHellForThis post followed by my #Brony followed by my #Sex post? It's just seems a bit creepy.

thenewgreen  ·  4362 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We have some ideas we are working on syncretic, but there are a number of things on our "to-do list". Be patient, I think you'll like some of the features to come.

syncretic  ·  4362 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have a feeling I will. I have a very hard time being patient, though, but I'll try ;)