Would love a #mastodon pro to explain to me how to use the #federatedtimeline because I just don't get it. I open that thing and it's like super speedy scrolling and so much stuff is kinda not my thing like a bunch of young anime girls?
i just keep that timeline closed but surely it must be intended for some particular use....
@logan_life
I mute liberally on it to avoid that
@GinnyMcQueen @dumpling @logan_life Which means Ginny gets all my hot takes on the federated timeline
@GinnyMcQueen @dumpling @Laurelai
okay so if I may ask - I'd love it if my federated timeline was like, a little bit slower, and was filled with stuff that is more relevant to my interest areas, e.g. books, dragons, queer stuff, comp sci stuff, etc so that I could use it to find cool new folks to follow. Also would love less like, weird (to me) quasi-porny anime stuff.
do I need to start my own instance to do that, ya think?
@logan_life @GinnyMcQueen @dumpling I personally like a busy federated timeline because im used to a large infostream
@logan_life @dumpling @Laurelai Definitely a smaller/more specific instance might do the trick. I think I saw groups being worked on, which also might help with curating.
@logan_life @GinnyMcQueen @dumpling @Laurelai not necessarily start your own, but definitely move somewhere smaller - the shops federated timeline is p decent in terms of quality tho ive had to mute a fair number of accts that dont CW politics
@dumpling @logan_life Also depends on your instance. Mine is very small and we block more instances, so it scrolls by about 1 post every 30 sec. Places like M.S aren't really usable because they are federating with most of entire fediverse. 😄