@lanodan@cmdr_nova mastodon used to have this, built in. then i think they killed it because it was too useful^W^W^W^Wtwitter users couldn't understand it
@cmdr_nova Respectfully, this is a deeply unfair comparison. Every single mastodon user has to figure out the server thing. The only BlueSky users who may need to use RegEx are ones who want to create “custom feeds” of data — something I’ve never done, and I’m a power user that knows RegEx. :)
@cabel@cmdr_nova But they propose to solve their moderation problems by having people subscribe to custom feeds (perhaps written by others), which I guess will try to filter out unwanted stuff with regular expressions? That's not going to work.
@not2b@cabel@cmdr_nova It's not their proposed solution to moderation, it's a tool they recommend as a way to curate what content you see.
Moderation is something they plan to build out further including third party moderation options like they have for feeds. The team has provided plenty of updates on this, and is completely transparent that it's a plan that is still not implemented. They're also a company that has had users for barely a year and a product for almost as short a time.
@redbassett@not2b@cmdr_nova What he said. Moderation is a currently a section completely separate from the Feeds you’re describing. Here’s some of what it looks like! (There seems to be a ton of BlueSky FUD here on Mastodon, it’s totally worth at least trying.)
@cmdr_nova I needed to use regex to parse a .json file for a small personal project of mine during lockdown.
without any previous knowledge, it took me almost 3 days of tinkering to figure out how to trim all the funny looking characters and display two numbers.
I'm fairly sure it took me at least one day less to create my Mastodon account.
I know this is coming far too late, but if you find yourself in a similar situation in the future, let me introduce you to jq, a command-line JSON processor/parser/munger. It kind of twisted my brain at first, but once you start to grok it, it's really useful. Here's an introduction that looks decent, to get you started.
@agarithil@cmdr_nova rest assured that I will not find myself in a similar situation in the future, and if I will, I'll use Tasker's built-in .json parser that hasn't yet been implemented back then.
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