Well, not to shit on the idea too much, but right now as of posting, looking at ~100 posts in the feed and the majority are bots, automated posts, or otherwise “brand” posts, not just regular people, and a few are Threads users or bridged Bluesky/Xitter accounts.
Doing a quick label:
- Human: https://503junk.house/@pettylarcen/113799872963899948
- Bot / Automated: https://flipboard.com/@thehindu/national-dkoomk3rz/-/a-Wrbuqb96QnuLzyLZOzNr5A%3Aa%3A2437248393-%2F0
- Brand: https://jforo.com/@pg/113799872842675573
- Brand: https://mastodon.social/@revistahamartia/113799873103967261
- Bot / Automated: https://beige.party/@weird_prompts/113799872991959203
- Bot / Automated: https://flipboard.com/@einvestidor/e-investidor-3hlliu9sz/-/a-qXSCrokETXuobrs7LeTyIA%3Aa%3A3418138642-%2F0
- Human: https://techhub.social/@davey_k/113799873017718358
- Human: https://social.vivaldi.net/@ladychelseaofthevoid/113799873046250477
- Human: https://mastodon.social/@zandra/113799873097548123
- Bot / Automated: https://flipboard.com/@einvestidor/e-investidor-3hlliu9sz/-/a-XeAr1Gw6Tzq_TloPwjtlfg%3Aa%3A3418138642-%2F0
- Bot / Automated: https://mastodon.social/@Kochi/113799873124639124
- Unknown Bridged Bluesky acount (it’s private and not in English so it’s harder to label): https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:crkrjt6p5j3jfvmyvtmgnflc/post/3lfddis6avk2u
- Bot / Automated: https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/113799873284418993
- Threads User: https://www.threads.net/@willianmax/post/DEnWuIvvG5n
- Bridged Bluesky User: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dctqr7kcavgggjipg6s2xc56/post/3lfddip6ih22r
- Human: https://douchi.space/@albusdumbledore/113799873324955194
- Human: https://troet.cafe/@Verfassungklage/113799873394589676
- Human: https://inari.opencocon.org/@matoken/113799873421069677
- Bot / Automated: https://www.socialnews.xyz/2025/01/09/fadnavis-tells-officials-to-focus-on-completion-of-infra-projects-within-time-limits/
- Bridged Xitter User: https://x.com/QBsMVP/status/1877426082275553391?mx=2
- Bridged Xitter User: https://x.com/scottmerkin/status/1877426155701108895
- Bridged Xitter User: https://x.com/CodyStavenhagen/status/1877426072259580060
- Non-human Bridged Xitter User: https://x.com/TSN_Sports/status/1877426003338727654
- Human: https://mastodon.content.town/@operationpuppet/113799873136927423
- ???: https://masto.ink/@torontotv/113799873345457501
- Human: https://chaos.social/@chris_gammell/113799873391924201
- Bot / Automated: https://mastodon.social/@indie1023_playlist/113799873574333510
- Bridged Xitter User: https://x.com/DOrlandoAJC/status/1877425955049767055
- Non-human Bridged Bluesky User: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:y2g5vymm2cvveec6cnspcvzo/post/3lfddivgl5f2j
- Bridged Xitter User: https://x.com/kfitz134/status/1877426109018468540
- Human: https://kafeneio.social/@norshgaath/113799873389635436
- Bot / Automated: https://jb.md/@news/113799873554864843
- Bot / Automated: https://hachyderm.io/@selfcare/113799873596733002
- ???: https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/113799873638378451
- Bot / Automated: https://flipboard.com/@janettespeyer/glorious-islands-623snqlnz/-/a-6u8jQ1XER2iJNsaC0LHzqw%3Aa%3A76802984-%2F0
- Unlabeled Bot: https://mastodon.online/@MTBotProfound/113799873683782913
- Bot / Automated: https://flipboard.com/@ctvnews/atlantic-lgqhk918z/-/a-fZkbJZybQXGhrgdvRKcxpw%3Aa%3A2823982346-%2F0
- Brand: https://mastodon.social/@KashmirFight/113799873720744097
- Bot / Automated: https://bots.robots.rodeo/@orcspiration/113799873169974336
- Brand: https://mastodon.social/@luxuryelitefinds/113799873675082571
- Bridged Xitter User: https://x.com/NJDevils/status/1877426162068058396
- Threads User: https://www.threads.net/@ernestoacostame/post/DEnWuZduJoc
- Brand or Unlabeled Bot: https://mastodon.social/@Pahalikhabar/113799873753297734
- Human: https://mstdn.social/@Ttubretep/113799873669338700
- Human: https://fosstodon.org/@softlandinglinuxsystem/113799873694371626
- Human: https://dice.camp/@Covok/113799873844076786
- Bridged Bluesky User: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vpkw7cvu6eu742hvjk5wsxf2/post/3lfddj225h22x
- Bridged Bluesky User: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2yuhperkb7ob5hhwshar4c5b/post/3lfddj5sxq32m
- Bot / Automated: https://mastodon.scot/@railway_regret/113799873833612028
That’s getting close to the 5k character limit, but you get the idea. This has actually negatively influenced my opinion on fediverse activity. I didn’t realize that such a high share of the activity wasn’t actually just “normal users”.
I have tried to use Mastodon, and I appreciate what is is, but I just don’t see the appeal. It feels like I’m trying to interact with nothing, and no one, ever seeing it. Feels like speaking to the void.
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.
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.
You can have a look at
this is why I usually browse Lemmy in new/comments/all, I just wish it had more than one page at a time or the ability to set more posts in one page
Summit offers that, I’d imagine plenty of other clients do too
Pretty much every client I’ve used doesn’t handle hexbear emojis particularly well, so I stick to browser. I’ll give that a try though.
Summit seems to deal with inline images fine which I would guess covers that
it renders them correctly - I just checked- but it doesn’t show the site-specific emoji picker, it just has a default plaintext one:
This is so cool
This is what people didn’t want. But it was inevitable that eventually that people would stop complaining about the newest iteration of this.
