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atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

i used to think a Global Timeline on here would help discoverability but then i realized that a good portion of mastodon's cultural problems stem from the fact that it has a Global Timeline. people being yelled at for not cw'ing eye contact or whatever happens because people post a selfie to their friends, and it ends up on the Global Timeline, being shown to the most delicate and angry people in the world

any global feed on any website MUST be opt-in. and that's why I'm kicking off The Cohost Global Feed. Simply tag your post "The Cohost Global Feed" to enter your post into The Cohost Global Feed

Edit, a year later: This was a joke that got out of hand. Cohost should not be like Twitter. Stop


atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

Good Evening, “The Cohost Global Feed” was an 8 month sociological study conducted by Harvard University. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.



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in reply to @atomicthumbs's post:

Honestly if i go back to having a fedi presence that's half the reason i want to self-host. Supposedly the close-knit communities are a good thing, but they're always about having one thing in common like some hobby, so you end up guilty of being off-topic. A generalist instance avoids that but it doesn't really form a local community.

The one i was previously on, it was generalist with reasonable policies (no fash, no jerks, otherwise post whatever). I went back to it recently to check its health, the admin said they quit posting over a callout post about e-dating age gap. I don't wanna be flippant about something that's definitely distressing to them but come on, half the instances end up dying for online reasons like this.

Self-hosting makes it simpler, don't like the posts, don't follow or block me/my instance, there's no admin you can bully with the threat of defederating.

On the other hand I've seen a number of people on twitter now saying that they like it because it is a global chatroom, which is exactly what the global timeline's point was. But then the federation part ruined it, because if everyone chooses an instance based on what types of things they want to see, they're obviously going to see other types of stuff in the federated timeline.

Seems to me like the ideal arrangement would be an account where you can connect with friends/people you know, but also join groups of strangers that share interests.

In other words, they should bring back Google+.

Edit: i forgot about the global chatroom component LOL Basically seems like there should be three feeds:

  • Posts by people I like/know/am interested in (e.g. following)
  • Posts by people I share interests with (e.g. groups)
  • Posts sorted by what things people are talking about (e.g. trending)

I might be necroing here (is that a crime on cohost?) but akkoma has implemented a pretty good solution to the gap between local and federated timelines - every server has a bubble timeline that combines the locals of selected instances

in reply to @atomicthumbs's post:

I'm beginning to think that having a central place for some posts to go is not the best thing. there should be many tags not just one place to put a thing you want people to see indiscriminately

edit: I said "should be" but I don't know for sure that it'd be better.

i suppose that's fair. i have no idea how to tag things (much like i have no idea how to compose image descriptions, which sounds stupid but it's frustrated me to tears in the past) so i just.. don't. or remember to browse interesting ones, really

A global timeline is very useful for discoverability, particularly if you're someone like me who knows very few other people here - algorithm nothing, I just see cool stuff or sound takes drift by on the river and take a look. It's how I've accumulated content to Consume on other platforms.

Not to be too pointed, but I think any problem with Mastodon's global timelines isn't that they exist, it's the users. Some people are just too online or hypersensitive for their own good.