the main reason I use mbin in the first place is the ability to access both threads and microblogs from one account and platform. i primarily use threads but a lot of people and organizations I want to follow are on mastodon, so the timeline view is very helpful for keeping both visible without having to remember to check microblogs. however, because I mostly follow communities, not users, ans because the communities post much more often than individual users, the microblog stuff can still easily get drowned out if I dont scroll far enough.
to fix this, I’d like to be able to weight microblogs higher than threads, so as to make them appear roughly 50/50 compared to threads. I’d also like to be able to change the weighting to do the same for threads, for the obvious reason of not everyone having the same preferences as me.
I’ve actually been thinking about this recently too. As well as there being a lot more threads than micbroblogs, since voting tends be less important on microblogging platforms, the number of comments on a post is often the determining factor when sorting by hot, top, etc so the microblogs get drowned out by the threads with votes.
I think weighting microblogs will be a little complicated since many microblogs have 0 score and 0 comments so giving them a say 1.5 multiplier won’t change the sorting result. Additionally mbin currently has an open PR for combining the thread/microblog timeline server-side which we’ll probably switch to using since it reduces app complexity. So it might be worthwhile bringing this up there too. In the meantime I’ll try experimenting with how to give microblogs a bit of a boost.
i probably will then.
