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Lists

@greymatter Federated and local scroll FAST. My brain doesn't scan THAT quickly 😂

@greymatter I use lists, and only occasionally linger in the home or local columns.

@greymatter lists

@greymatter @Truck home, then lists

@greymatter There's one more option, bubble timeline. Subset of the federated timeline, limited to domains that your instance lists as friendly.

@greymatter I answered Home but I browse them all regularly. I also love following hashtags.

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I spend most of my time on "Home" because I'm in a single user instance. My "local" is only me talking alone and my federated is still pretty much the same as my local + some random toots that usually doesn't match my interests.

@greymatter trending, for the moment

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Lists. It wasn't an option.

Next I look at my Home, and Local equally.

@greymatter ah crap, meant to vote home instead of hashtags... local and federated is a never ending source of "OMG THE WORLD IS ENDING", I avoid them as much as possible

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Might be lists actually 😅

@greymatter Looking at followed hashtags (I don't mean server's list of popular hashtags, just the ones I follow) is a close second.

@greymatter 50-50 split between Home and Trending Posts (Explore > Posts on the web interface). A lot of people don't seem to be aware the latter even exists, but for me it's invaluable for finding popular content and users that I might never otherwise have stumbled across.

(As I'm on the biggest server, the Local and Federated feeds are pretty much unusable.)

@greymatter Um. I generally use mastodon in Advanced mode on desktop, so I've always got Home and Local visible...

@greymatter i said home but i spend a lot of time with only my mentions open

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Notifications.

@greymatter I tend to look at Local the most. I hadn't expected that, but I guess your Local experience depends what server you're on. Mine is a place-specific server with a couple dozen regulars talking about locally-relevant stuff - doesn't move too fast or too slow.

Also I might need to tweak my Home feed more. I mostly follow a bunch of hashtags and a few friends (most of whom never talk here, alas). Lists are (currently?) limited in that you can't add hashtags to them.

@greymatter varies between accounts. Here I have very fun local timeline and my following list overlaps a lot with it. But on my other account on a general purpose instance my local timeline is a chaotic hotchpotch of everything and I spend more time _looking_ for cool stuff than _finding_ it.

I check Federated only when I misclick on it.

@greymatter I realised within the first 15 minutes that "federated" was making Niagra Falls look like a tiny 1" firehose... I would poke at Local for the first couple weeks, but once my feed got big enough and the way I wanted? No need for the others.

@greymatter Home mostly, but I also check hashtags frequently. I also like to check the local feed on specialist instances that I am interested in but not part of.

@greymatter I have no idea ... Blush ... But I love Mastodon ... giggles

@greymatter I use a lot of lists to separate bots from actual people. So I actually use my lists more. But yeah, it's sort of most similar to the "home" column.

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Explore, which you didn't list as an option.

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It's a tie between Lists (missing from the poll), Home and hashtags.

@greymatter Local but mostly home, tbh.

@greymatter Lists

@greymatter I switch between home and local. Federated (globe icon) has too much culture-war, reminds me of all the reasons I try to limit my Twitter exposure.

@greymatter@rap.social The recommended timeline...oh, wait! Mastodon doesn't have that!

@greymatter @stopthatgirl7 I use Trending a lot, too. It helps me see things outside my Home bubble

@greymatter I would be interested to see this question with the second most

@greymatter @donmelton

As much as I love the sound of my own voice, I’m on my own single-user instance and my Local timeline reads like the ravings of a madman watching movies, #StarTrek and #StarWars. 🤪

@greymatter I selected “home” but the actual answer is the several lists I’ve sorted my follows into.

@greymatter I’m a compulsive list maker, so I actually often check my curated lists first when I log on.

@greymatter you left out "lists"

@greymatter @hardly_ted A couple months of curating work here and my home timeline is now, dare I say, *more* vibrant than the Shi**er feed I left behind. I visit Local and Federated only occasionally now, but I used both heavily when I first got started here to find accounts and topics to follow.

@greymatter we spend most of our time with the home timeline and some of the user timelines that we keep pulled up in our #mastodon interface. We will occasionally go over to the federated area, or the local area if our server is having a server wide conversation, but that's not very common.

@greymatter I'd actually answer Lists, if that were an option.

@greymatter @melissabeartrix

@greymatter asking before I poll so I know what I’m on, it has a search icon on The bottom, and a tab at the top that says posts, any idea, mastodon iOS if that helps

@greymatter None of the above. I live in Lists.

@greymatter ok I voted for home, just because I wanted to see the results... Did I win anything because I picked the most popular one ... That's how this works ... Giggles

@greymatter I chose home, but if lists was an option, it would have been a hard choice. My home feed is a bit chaotic, so I find it useful to keep an eye on certain groups of people whose content I especially like to read.

@greymatter I actually spend a lot more time on local than I thought I would. I can't imagine a much more interesting community than the one we have here on lingo.lol, but I still think people wildly overrate the local feed when explaining Mastodon...

@greymatter first home, then a list I made for all the people I really want to see content from, since they might post when I am not using the app so they might be too far buried in home. I almost never use the local or federated views now.

@greymatter home and lists.

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@dkompare

I use Lists almost exclusively, so my real answer is none of the above, but I picked Home because everyone I follow is assigned to a list, and I do look at all of them (some more often than others).

@greymatter When I first joined Mastodon, I spent a lot more time on the federated timeline and some specific hashtags, but six months later I'm on Home almost exclusively.