Another option: Gmail supports the “+” operator. If your email address is: Alice@gmail.com
You can use an email like Alice+eBay@gmail.com
To sign up for eBay. Now you can filter all of the garbage sent to that address easily! Bonus, you get to see who’s selling your data which is always frustrating and entertaining.
Now supports “mark read on scroll” if you like to keep the Frontpage fresh. So good!
Instance admins can do it.
Most normal users won’t care about any of this because it’ll shake itself out quickly as has happened with Mastodon. But if you do care, join up with a smaller server that plays nice with everybody and enjoy the whole fediverse.
Just need a “mark read in scroll” for those of us who like fresh content and doomscroll often.
I don’t understand. I love free software more than the average person, but I choose the communities I belong to based on more things than the license of the underlying technology. What else do I need to learn?
Bah. Source is RT.