Several weeks into the #TwitterMigration, I’m finding that Mastodon has become a firehose. I used to be able to pop in once or twice a day and scroll until the point I left off, but that’s no longer the case.
I don’t want to drop any of the people I’ve followed, but I’m beginning to wonder if it might be worth going back to my old scheme of having topic-focused accounts on different instances as a way of keeping my view organized.
The downside, based on my previous experience, is that having multiple accounts feels like having multiple social networks. And in a way it is! And then of course there are always the overlaps in topics.
Maybe I’ll try that Linode pre-built Mastodon server. Or maybe I’ll try setting up something smaller like GoToSocial or a Misskey fork.
Or maybe I’ll just set up alts on thematicly-appropriate instances like a normal person 😜
I’ve disabled boosts from a few specific people who tend to boost *a lot*, which does help – but there’s that same problem of missing the next layer out.
Lists do help, but the UI for managing them still sucks, and you have to basically make one of the lists your “home” feed instead of, well, your home feed.