22I'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
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