Mo @mo@nitech.online

@marramgrass @theronster Narrator: through no fault of his own, he missed it.

I need an app or service that can remember the name of that movie that I saw advertised on the side of a bus around 6 months ago when it was in cinemas but is now available on iTunes and I’m in the mood to watch it right now but only if it’s not too long because I’m a bit sleepy this evening thank you very much.

Is it too much to ask for this simple use case?

@LeifB73 probably not. You might save a little space in a database if the post is genuinely deleted, but many systems will “soft-delete” where a piece of data is marked as deleted so that it won’t appear in searches and lists, but is still there for record keeping.

Additionally, deleting old posts will just generate more work for a server to do, and if that deletion gets propagated to your followers then it could create more work on multiple instances.

@noodles I decided to check, and The Cure are on the Friday night. Was starting to get jittery and considering just going for E6

@oisin also, you need to change instance and stop giving out 😜

@oisin maybe it was a Twitterrific thing, but I’d been using that aggressively for years with Twitter. I like the time-bounded mutes here. Great for when some people get very active and over dominate my timeline.

@noodles you might be right, but I don’t think I could do two nights in a row, and Glen Hansard on the 6th. And maybe Paddy Kielty on the 4th

@noodles no, I’m at The Cure that night. Gutted to miss E6, but excited to see The Cure!

@oisin but it’s my instance!

@oisin I know what you’re saying, and I’m sidestepping it because it suits my moan. It’s not like you can pinpoint a single person to take action against. One person boosts one thing because they think it’s helpful, so I don’t want to take action against them for one inadvertent annoyance. And I don’t want to mute the OP cause it’s not their fault either.

Doesn’t help that really old posts can be dragged up regularly. Especially from Eugen.

I don’t know if this needs to be a server or client function, but the Mastodon experience desperately needs to debounce repeated boosts of the same damn posts over and over again.

@theronster and you suggested you wouldn’t be tech enough for nitech!

@MarkXA @OpinionatedGeek it’s always good for us Blade Runners to be able to weed out the Replicants.

@theronster quote tooting is verboten. If you wait a few seconds someone will boost the post that explains why. Comes around regularly.

@OpinionatedGeek what does ‘gm’ represent?

@seanddotmedotuk you know what, I think that’s probably stipulated in the GFA.

@seanddotmedotuk dammit. I was about to register mastodon.ni but it’ll cost about 700 quid. I was going to redirect to .ie