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There needs to be a way to pause te Federated timeline display. I tried three time to interact with a Toot there, just to have it scroll past. Then I lost it.

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@Samizdata It's paused in the apps I've tried. You need to pull down to refresh.

@greermahoney That's supergreen, but I rock a browser for most of my Mastodonation time. 31" monitor? Yes please!

@Samizdata I feel like a fix for that has GOT to be coming, it's such like a glaring issue lol

@tadpole We can only hope. Hope and pray (to the deity of your choice).

@Samizdata I seem to be able to keep the federated timeline from scrolling down by doing this:

highlight the text of some post, then scroll down a bit and read posts underneath (timeline is not moving on its own now), scroll back up and read newer ones; if I scroll all the way back to the top it carries on in the usual fashion, pushing posts down.

This is in Chrome on octodon.social with a little experimentation after I noticed that sometimes I was able to read the timeline without it moving.