Fedi On Fire

People really do be needing to look at the Local and Global timelines. There's a lot of chatter about regular, non-linuxy things there.

Honestly, I think I'm completely sold on the idea that the Local timeline should be the default.

Honestly, I think I’m completely sold on the idea that the Local timeline should be the default.
That's already the case for a few instances
https://feddit.org/
https://jlai.lu/
- I know. But the post is about Mastodon.
  As far as I know, Mastodon doesn't even support assigning a default feed.
I love the idea of the decentralized services, but trying to browse global all is a nightmare. Even browsing local all I have a ton of communities blocked and add more every day. The only downside is when communities I like migrate to a different instance. I still try global all once every few months, but it never lasts long.
- Subscribed should definitely be the main feed for most people, that's the best way to get a curated feed.
  Getting multiple personal feeds would also help.

this is why I usually browse Lemmy in new/comments/all, I just wish it had more than one page at a time or the ability to set more posts in one page

Summit offers that, I'd imagine plenty of other clients do too
- Pretty much every client I've used doesn't handle hexbear emojis particularly well, so I stick to browser. I'll give that a try though.
Photon has infinite scrolling :). lemmyusa.com runs it
- Hello,
  When are you planning to update to 0.19.8?

This is so cool

This is what people didn't want. But it was inevitable that eventually that people would stop complaining about the newest iteration of this.

According to the feedback, I just shut down this project, perhaps permanently. Sorry for all the harm I caused.

Anyone know if this harm was anything more than just hitting API limits?

There's a pretty strong no-scraping (and scraping-adjacent) sentiment within Mastodon
- People are upset that the things they posted publicly are viewable publicly?
I have no idea.I tried yesterday to figure out what that ment....but the original site is down.

Well, not to shit on the idea too much, but right now as of posting, looking at ~100 posts in the feed and the majority are bots, automated posts, or otherwise "brand" posts, not just regular people, and a few are Threads users or bridged Bluesky/Xitter accounts.

Doing a quick label:

Human: https://503junk.house/@pettylarcen/113799872963899948
Bot / Automated: https://flipboard.com/@thehindu/national-dkoomk3rz/-/a-Wrbuqb96QnuLzyLZOzNr5A%3Aa%3A2437248393-%2F0
Brand: https://jforo.com/@pg/113799872842675573
Brand: https://mastodon.social/@revistahamartia/113799873103967261
Bot / Automated: https://beige.party/@weird_prompts/113799872991959203
Bot / Automated: https://flipboard.com/@einvestidor/e-investidor-3hlliu9sz/-/a-qXSCrokETXuobrs7LeTyIA%3Aa%3A3418138642-%2F0
Human: https://techhub.social/@davey_k/113799873017718358
Human: https://social.vivaldi.net/@ladychelseaofthevoid/113799873046250477
Human: https://mastodon.social/@zandra/113799873097548123
Bot / Automated: https://flipboard.com/@einvestidor/e-investidor-3hlliu9sz/-/a-XeAr1Gw6Tzq_TloPwjtlfg%3Aa%3A3418138642-%2F0
Bot / Automated: https://mastodon.social/@Kochi/113799873124639124
Unknown Bridged Bluesky acount (it's private and not in English so it's harder to label): https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:crkrjt6p5j3jfvmyvtmgnflc/post/3lfddis6avk2u
Bot / Automated: https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/113799873284418993
Threads User: https://www.threads.net/@willianmax/post/DEnWuIvvG5n
Bridged Bluesky User: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dctqr7kcavgggjipg6s2xc56/post/3lfddip6ih22r
Human: https://douchi.space/@albusdumbledore/113799873324955194
Human: https://troet.cafe/@Verfassungklage/113799873394589676
Human: https://inari.opencocon.org/@matoken/113799873421069677
Bot / Automated: https://www.socialnews.xyz/2025/01/09/fadnavis-tells-officials-to-focus-on-completion-of-infra-projects-within-time-limits/
Bridged Xitter User: https://x.com/QBsMVP/status/1877426082275553391?mx=2
Bridged Xitter User: https://x.com/scottmerkin/status/1877426155701108895
Bridged Xitter User: https://x.com/CodyStavenhagen/status/1877426072259580060
Non-human Bridged Xitter User: https://x.com/TSN_Sports/status/1877426003338727654
Human: https://mastodon.content.town/@operationpuppet/113799873136927423
???: https://masto.ink/@torontotv/113799873345457501
Human: https://chaos.social/@chris_gammell/113799873391924201
Bot / Automated: https://mastodon.social/@indie1023_playlist/113799873574333510
Bridged Xitter User: https://x.com/DOrlandoAJC/status/1877425955049767055
Non-human Bridged Bluesky User: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:y2g5vymm2cvveec6cnspcvzo/post/3lfddivgl5f2j
Bridged Xitter User: https://x.com/kfitz134/status/1877426109018468540
Human: https://kafeneio.social/@norshgaath/113799873389635436
Bot / Automated: https://jb.md/@news/113799873554864843
Bot / Automated: https://hachyderm.io/@selfcare/113799873596733002
???: https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/113799873638378451
Bot / Automated: https://flipboard.com/@janettespeyer/glorious-islands-623snqlnz/-/a-6u8jQ1XER2iJNsaC0LHzqw%3Aa%3A76802984-%2F0
Unlabeled Bot: https://mastodon.online/@MTBotProfound/113799873683782913
Bot / Automated: https://flipboard.com/@ctvnews/atlantic-lgqhk918z/-/a-fZkbJZybQXGhrgdvRKcxpw%3Aa%3A2823982346-%2F0
Brand: https://mastodon.social/@KashmirFight/113799873720744097
Bot / Automated: https://bots.robots.rodeo/@orcspiration/113799873169974336
Brand: https://mastodon.social/@luxuryelitefinds/113799873675082571
Bridged Xitter User: https://x.com/NJDevils/status/1877426162068058396
Threads User: https://www.threads.net/@ernestoacostame/post/DEnWuZduJoc
Brand or Unlabeled Bot: https://mastodon.social/@Pahalikhabar/113799873753297734
Human: https://mstdn.social/@Ttubretep/113799873669338700
Human: https://fosstodon.org/@softlandinglinuxsystem/113799873694371626
Human: https://dice.camp/@Covok/113799873844076786
Bridged Bluesky User: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vpkw7cvu6eu742hvjk5wsxf2/post/3lfddj225h22x
Bridged Bluesky User: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2yuhperkb7ob5hhwshar4c5b/post/3lfddj5sxq32m
Bot / Automated: https://mastodon.scot/@railway_regret/113799873833612028

That's getting close to the 5k character limit, but you get the idea. This has actually negatively influenced my opinion on fediverse activity. I didn't realize that such a high share of the activity wasn't actually just "normal users".

I have tried to use Mastodon, and I appreciate what is is, but I just don't see the appeal. It feels like I'm trying to interact with nothing, and no one, ever seeing it. Feels like speaking to the void.