Don RayMastodon / Fediverse question.
Home, Local, and Global (Federated) Timelines. Did those options disappear?
On the desktop version of Mastodon, there used to be (as of 2 days ago) a menu item, "Live Feeds," to choose which feed to browse. Now it's not there.
(If anyone knows a pertinent hashtag for this question, please put it in a comment. Thanks.) #FediTips @FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Don Ray@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Here’s the response from the admin:
“We are actually planning to disable the "live feeds" functionality on both mastodon.social and mastodon.online as it generally provides a poor method of discovering good posts and often has a lot of spam. (It's a new feature so we're testing it at the moment on mastodon.online.)”
My comment would be: It’s interesting to say that removing something is a “new feature.”
lfisk@donray@mastodon.online @FediTips@social.growyourown.services Guessing... see if this sheds any light on your question🤷♂️
I often peruse Mastodons Github issues when I run into interface problems...
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/25641
Fedi.Tips@donray@mastodon.online
As far as I can tell the Live Feeds menu item is still there both on the release version and the prototype "nightly" version.
It's possible they are trying something out on your server mastodon.online as it's owned by the software developers (as is mastodon.social).
Don Ray@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @lfisk@infosec.exchange
Yes, I think that conversation is describing the way it was before the Live Feeds link disappeared from the menu. I have contacted the admin of mastodon.online. It could be something the Mastodon developers did (accidentally or on purpose????).
lfisk@donray@mastodon.online @FediTips@social.growyourown.services Found mention of a new server setting too, that an Administrator might use🤔
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/36563
Don Ray@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Thanks. I guess I could email the admin of mastodon.online.
Another detail: On my mobile app, the tabs are there for switching timelines, but there is no content.
Fedi.Tips@lfisk@infosec.exchange @donray@mastodon.online
Yeah, the first issue is from 2023 and was just bringing in the "Live Feeds" option.
I'm not sure whether the second link is related.
Either way, it's something the mastodon.online admins would know.
Fedi.Tips@donray@mastodon.online
Yeah, probably best to ask your admin. They do often experiment with stuff on those two servers because they belong to them, which means sometimes you see stuff early but also sometimes stuff breaks.
Don Ray@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Interesting. I’ll check with them. Thanks again.
Don Ray@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Interesting. I’ll check with them. Thanks again.