What's everyone's favorite way to view a timeline of posts here?
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@baileytownsend Hashtags are useful in general, though only if you're on an at least mid-sized instance, they're pretty useless on mine since there's no content there. On yours I think it should be fine.
There's also a "Trending" tab that's kind of like What's Hot on Bluesky, here on yours: https://hachyderm.io/explore - again, useless on mine, so I use https://mastodon.social while logged out if I want to check that one or hashtag feeds. The downsides of a personal instance
@mackuba OHHHH that /explore is just my instance and not all of mastodon? Did not realize that. Thank you!
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@baileytownsend there are also bots that boost the trending posts of a bunch of servers (I don't think this is the best solution to this, but it helps to add more variety to a chronological feed), I manage this one: @trending_bot
@tom nice! Thank you, saw a few of those go by. Not the best solution, but I do love a good bandaid patch lol
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@mackuba OHHHH that /explore is just my instance and not all of mastodon? Did not realize that. Thank you!
@baileytownsend It's what your instance can see about all of Mastodon - there's no general "all of Mastodon" since you can only see the data through the lens of your instance. But if you're on a large-ish instance, it's fairly close to "all of Mastodon".
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What's everyone's favorite way to view a timeline of posts here? I like that there's a local feed for hachyderm.io posts, but would like it if it was a bit more trending than showing newest first. Does look like there is a trending for the whole network and maybe hashtags is the way to go for scoped content? If so anyone got any good ones to follow??
@baileytownsend I mostly just read my following feed and the instance-local feed.
However, this mostly works because I've been around long enough that I follow lots of people.
Bootstrapping is a problem.
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@baileytownsend Hashtags are useful in general, though only if you're on an at least mid-sized instance, they're pretty useless on mine since there's no content there. On yours I think it should be fine.
There's also a "Trending" tab that's kind of like What's Hot on Bluesky, here on yours: https://hachyderm.io/explore - again, useless on mine, so I use https://mastodon.social while logged out if I want to check that one or hashtag feeds. The downsides of a personal instance
@mackuba @baileytownsend If you want numbers behind what Kuba's saying, I built a tool to show you: https://tag-federation.online/
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What's everyone's favorite way to view a timeline of posts here? I like that there's a local feed for hachyderm.io posts, but would like it if it was a bit more trending than showing newest first. Does look like there is a trending for the whole network and maybe hashtags is the way to go for scoped content? If so anyone got any good ones to follow??
My woot* from before might help you understand how discovery works here too
Though I can't say much about how to set your timeline because Wafrn instances and app are very different from the average Mastodon instance experience (I can't use Mastodon-compatible apps/clients, but I can use Bluesky clients
)*what wafrn posts are called, as toots are posts from mastodon instances
RE: https://app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/f24ec0db-2ef0-4294-8c98-20763ebd586c -
@mackuba @baileytownsend If you want numbers behind what Kuba's saying, I built a tool to show you: https://tag-federation.online/
@ricci @baileytownsend oh nice
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What's everyone's favorite way to view a timeline of posts here? I like that there's a local feed for hachyderm.io posts, but would like it if it was a bit more trending than showing newest first. Does look like there is a trending for the whole network and maybe hashtags is the way to go for scoped content? If so anyone got any good ones to follow??
I've tried to do a list of all the ways to customise your timeline in this guide: https://fedi.tips/does-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-use-algorithms-does-it-start-pushing-stuff-at-me-based-on-my-interactions
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I've tried to do a list of all the ways to customise your timeline in this guide: https://fedi.tips/does-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-use-algorithms-does-it-start-pushing-stuff-at-me-based-on-my-interactions
@FediTips thank you! I have really enjoyed looking through the fed tips site today!
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@FediTips thank you! I have really enjoyed looking through the fed tips site today!
