I love the idea of the decentralized services, but trying to browse global all is a nightmare. Even browsing local all I have a ton of communities blocked and add more every day. The only downside is when communities I like migrate to a different instance. I still try global all once every few months, but it never lasts long.
Discoverability is my biggest issue with the subscribed feed. If I’m using subscribed, I’m not finding new communities. Curating a set of base communities that I want to see does seem like it would be worth the effort, though. Thanks for the suggestion.
On Lemmy I browse Subscribed until I run out of new posts. Then I switch to All and look for communities to add. Over time I’ve been spending more and more time on Subscribed, as my list grows.
This post is about Mastodon, I haven’t been able to figure that place out yet.
People really do be needing to look at the Local and Global timelines. There’s a lot of chatter about regular, non-linuxy things there.
Honestly, I think I’m completely sold on the idea that the Local timeline should be the default.
That’s already the case for a few instances
I know. But the post is about Mastodon.
As far as I know, Mastodon doesn’t even support assigning a default feed.
Misskey forks do, if you are interested
I love the idea of the decentralized services, but trying to browse global all is a nightmare. Even browsing local all I have a ton of communities blocked and add more every day. The only downside is when communities I like migrate to a different instance. I still try global all once every few months, but it never lasts long.
Subscribed should definitely be the main feed for most people, that’s the best way to get a curated feed.
Getting multiple personal feeds would also help.
Discoverability is my biggest issue with the subscribed feed. If I’m using subscribed, I’m not finding new communities. Curating a set of base communities that I want to see does seem like it would be worth the effort, though. Thanks for the suggestion.
On Lemmy I browse Subscribed until I run out of new posts. Then I switch to All and look for communities to add. Over time I’ve been spending more and more time on Subscribed, as my list grows.
This post is about Mastodon, I haven’t been able to figure that place out yet.
You can have a look at