A screen capture, starts out by me logging into Octodon by selecting it from a dropdown, after which, a second later, a list of accounts I follow shows up on the left, and a few columns of toot threads show up on the right from my account. As I scroll to the right, I pause to scroll down some of the longer threads. Nested replies are collapsible and I click on one. After I scroll all the way to the right, I hit the last thread, so I click a button labeled "Older" (above "Oldest", and a checkbox that says "Hide boosts") to load more toot thread, and continue scrolling right.

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   22 (22@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 16:56:44 JST 22

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   I've complained enough times about Mastodon, Pinafore, etc. slavishly copying Twitter's timeline presentation, and the last couple of weeks brought that to a head—a month ago I followed 15 people who posted infrequently. Today I follow ~120. And you crazy kooks post a lot. And I just cannot miss anything, especially from the quiet folks whose toots are ripe for drowning.

   So Yoyogi is "non-timeline". You log in and it shows you all the people you follow. You pick one of them. It shows you all their toots, fully threaded. (I'm a sucker for threads.) (No, I really, really like threads.) So each thread has its own column, kind of like a newspaper. And you scroll right to see older stuff.

   This is how I've consumed social media for a few years now. Whether through RSS readers or folders of bookmarks or now Yoyogi, I love consuming one person's posts, rooting around their replies, and then switching off. I decide when to visit each of my follows—some people I visit daily, others I have to gather up some spoons before I catch up with.

   https://fasiha.github.io/yoyogi/ it's all client-side, like Pinafore, just your browser talking to your Mastodon instance—pretty secure and privacy-preserving.

   Yoyogi is super-alpha right now, it doesn't even load avatar images or media, nor does it remember when you last visited whom. All that's coming I hope! But I'm already dog-fooding it and am so happy to have a more controlled Mastodon experience.

   Because y'all are precious. But. Also a lot. #Yoyogi