My hope was (is?) That this sort of function would be a part of the "communities" upgrade. Each night I post an actifit report that is really only even slightly of interest to other actifit users. Having these marked and segregated from my main blog posts (as you say viewable to anyone on an opt-in system) would be preferable to using an alt account or loosing followers because they have no interest in actifit. Could "communties" fix this?
P.s. I love actifit, I'm just using it as an example.
I am not sure from a technical standpoint so I will say YES! :D
Well, the communities could fix it if they agree to build with certain guidelines and markers necessary to filter and hide etc. All users need more control and potentially it would be possible to have 'universal basic settings' that could be applied through account settings to every application.
I guess it is down to the developers to build these functions into their front ends and dApps. And for the Auto voters to implement the extra filters as needed.
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Pretty much I think. Getting agreement is not easy in a decentralized environment, but perhaps some of the larger ones could work together and create something useful. I do think there would be value in empowering users across applications more than competing. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Youtube for example have different use cases but, Steem can be all of them plus much more.
That statement in a nutshell is why I am here. So much potential if we can get it right.
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Just so you know we are working on communities as we speak over on steempeak with @shredz7
I think it does help with a lot of issues. Using the actifit example I think a lot of people would put their post in an actifit or exersize community. But many people may still throw it on their main blog for what they think is more exposure or if that effects autovotes but one would assume putting it into a community of people that actually care is better advertisement anyway. Not sure.
But communities is a way to put content where people will actually be more likely to care
Would it be possible to say have a global setting through keychain (I know this isn't you but you understand it) that can say "don't show actifit updates". Then Steempeak can read the setting and filter actifit posts out no matter where they appear. In the user blogroll one could have a "reveal all content" option.
This way, keychain could be used to dictate settings and interfaces could leverage it as a settings repository.
Simple checkbox system for keychain would suffice for a test.
Keychain only signs transactions. So they wouldn't be a place to do any filter settings.
Would be nice to have an account management setting application then that can hold a host of options the interfaces can draw from.