Mastodon / 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
@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.”
@donray@mastodon.online @FediTips@social.growyourown.services I particularly like the appeal to "lots of spam". How do I report it now?
@donray@mastodon.online
Thanks for passing that on, interesting!
To be fair, mastodon.social is way way too large, not surprised that they find these features unmanageable 😦
The live feeds are designed for a decentralised network where people are spread out on lots of reasonably sized servers rather than a supergiant.
Hopefully this is just an option for an admin to switch them off if they want to rather than remove them from every server.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
I’m thinking that this will motivate me to go to a smaller server.
Here’s the other part of the email (I ran out of characters before):
“We do have the ability to opt people back into it, but we would like to understand how people still use it if they do need access to it again.”
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
I’m thinking that this will motivate me to go to a smaller server.
Here’s the other part of the email (I ran out of characters before):
“We do have the ability to opt people back into it, but we would like to understand how people still use it if they do need access to it again.”
@donray@mastodon.online
Good luck with it 🙂
If you need any help, feel free to ask. I've done a step-by-step guide for moving at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server
@donray@mastodon.online
Good luck with it 🙂
If you need any help, feel free to ask. I've done a step-by-step guide for moving at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Thanks. I’d like to avoid a disaster🙂
I’m looking at servers now.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Thanks. I’d like to avoid a disaster🙂
I’m looking at servers now.
Don Ray
