Long post about full timelines

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.

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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 😜

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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.

It is so weird to see triple-digit boosts in the feed.

It is so weird to see triple-digit boosts in the feed.

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The funny thing is all the viral posts about how Mastodon is designed to make it harder for things to go viral.

With comment threads longer than I’ve seen in ages.

(Harder, of course, doesn’t mean impossible!)

(And yeah, I’m guilty of boosting some of them too!)

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Time for me to stop contributing to the problem of over-saturating the feed with meta-commentary.

(Oh no, I’m doing it right now!)

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With all the new people on the fediverse lately, I’m kind of getting overwhelmed by the multi-column UI.

I have been using the “advanced” interface for #mastodon (TweetDeck style) ever since I joined, mostly because I never got around to trying out the now-standard one when it was introduced.

But with all the new people on the fediverse lately, I’m kind of getting overwhelmed by the multi-column UI.

So I thought I’d give the simpler one a try.

And you know what, it’s actually a nicer balance! Going to try this and @pinafore and see which I end up liking better for desktop.

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One problem: I don’t see a way to pin hashtag searches in either of them the way I can in the multi-column view. (I’m thinking it should appear similar to the Lists feature.) Am I missing something, or is it just not implemented in either of these UIs?

#ui

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In the process of disentangling connected accounts from the birdsite…

In the process of disentangling connected accounts from the birdsite, stumbled on #IntenseDebate. I’m not sure I’ve seen a site using them for comments in years.

And considering that the list-your-other-social-sites-on-your-profile still has spots for Digg, FriendFeed, MyBlogLog, and Orkut, I have to wonder…is Automattic doing anything with it other than keeping the lights on?

List of social media sites including several that don't exist anymore.

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Speaking of stumbling on things, I miss StumbleUpon

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