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Evan Prodromou
Very interesting! I am a qualified no. First there's no single "federated timeline". It's a Mastodon feature that lets you eavesdrop on the conversations of other people on your instance. As such, it's a place for discovery. It's explicitly stuff that you personally haven't subscribed to (yet). It's the feed of posts that aren't interesting to you. 2 comments
Evan Prodromou
Telling human posters that their posts are ruining the federated timeline for you is rude, though. Especially if they are using content warnings so you don't get surprised. Let people live their lives and post what they want. If you're not interested, scroll past it. If it's really bad, block or mute. And let's be grateful that people post things about themselves and make it public so we can all learn about it and the world. |
Gregory's Server
All that said, it is nice for people to be able to explore there, and bulk automated posts probably fill it up and make discovery difficult. So it's probably polite for bots with a lot of repetitive posts to use "follower only" or "unlisted".