Re: Re: PLEASE STOP MAKING NEWS AGGREGATORS

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A big issue people have been voicing is a lack of good content on gemini. Places like Antenna are where people make their content known. When people post their aggregators to Antenna we get a huge block of noise on a daily basis. It makes a simple interface annoying to use.

These are *hand*-curated, though

Yes but it's not your content. If you like things comment on them, add to the conversation. Do what you and I are doing now. Or take a look at how other's post curated content. They make their own post that has all the links inside and then they toss that link up on Antenna. "My curated content for today". There are good examples, daily list of random pictures, daily pics of cheetas, etc. If you want to share other's content then do it in a way that doesn't clutter up everything else.

Antenna filter

The problem there is this new feature has broken all of the backlink services. Being able to find who links to your content was a nice feature to continue the conversation. I'm hoping that the search engines on Gemini are smart enough to not look at the Antenna filter links

I just looked at one of my post and there was over 125 references to my page...

...and they all were personal Antenna filters. Now I have to filter out all these links because again more noise. Interestingly, the Antenna filter links show what people are blocking and most are aggregators. Again, people posting other's content in a way that makes a simple interface a pain to use.

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