I'm just curious. In which timeline do you spend most of your #Mastodon time?
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Voting ended 11 Nov 2022 at 13:50.
I'm just curious. In which timeline do you spend most of your #Mastodon time? Anonymous poll
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Local
140
17%
Home
592
71.8%
Federated
825 people voted. 93
11.3%
Voting ended 11 Nov 2022 at 13:50. 51 comments
@jwildeboer as a single user instance home and federated are the same for me and local is just me 😅 @jwildeboer I bounce between them - there's a totally different vibe on each. A curated on, in a sense, on my Home which reflects who I've followed. I made my choice of Local server intentionally, so it's lovely to see this picture of a specific community. Then my Federated gives me glimpses into the broad discussions. @jwildeboer For now I spend more time on my home timeline but I just joined and I'm still getting things figured out. @jwildeboer this is probably a "tweetism", but because the other site timeline was so bad, I defaulted to only read posts from the people I follow, and largely ignore others (unless I'm bored, or looking for something specific). This is nicely achieved here with the "Home" timeline. @jwildeboer Home timeline, and also local to see if anyone else joined this instance, but I mostly follow all other users on this instance so they show up in the home feed
@jwildeboer There's not a lot of point looking at my local timeline on a single-user instance 😉 @Paul @jwildeboer Au contraire. Grab the RSS feed and you have an instant backup of all our posts - ever.
@Paul It's a nice shortcut to listing all my posts when I look for something ;) @Paul @jwildeboer You'd at least be guaranteed sensible conversation with like minded folks 😂 @jwildeboer I wonder how much single-user instances will skew results. My local timeline is pretty useless 😂 @jwildeboer Well, up until this last tsunami of activity I was starting to get bored with Home and I was spending some time scanning local and federated for interesting people and instances. But for the past week and some, now Home is plenty, thanks!! 🤣 I started bopping around on my Friendica account while the mastodon instances were being upgraded, and that has led to a seriously improved appreciation of what federation is all about! 👍 @jwildeboer @jwildeboer At the moment I've been spending most of my time on the explore tab, trying to find accounts to follow. Federated and local have too many posts I don't care about, and since I'm new my home has barely any posts. @jwildeboer Home, because both my "local" and my "federated" timelines are empty 😿 @jwildeboer depending on the time of day, Local has started to scroll by so quickly it is hard to keep up 😅 @jwildeboer I have a feeling this is going to have an unusually high "home" bias since that's going to be where most people are going to encounter a boosted post. @jwildeboer It used to be local, but then my instance shut down and I had to move, and it's not the same anymore. I spend it in #Pleroma and elsewhere because there's so much more to the #fediverse than #mastodon, why would I want to limit myself? 😎
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@jwildeboer I use the advanced web interface, and I have Home and Local, and some tags as columns.