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   Mastodon.social Staff (staff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 05:29:30 JST Mastodon.social Staff

   We plan to disable the "live feeds" of the local and federated timelines on mastodon.social within in the next couple of weeks. They are already disabled on mastodon.online. While these feeds can be useful on smaller, topical or regional servers, they have limited use on larger servers like ours.

   The live feeds present all content on the server immediately and essentially pre-moderation, which presents a particularly poor experience to new users finding the fediverse for the first time.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 05:29:29 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @staff great!

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 11:07:36 JST Miakoda

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     @staff I'm asking generally, as I'm aware what you just said doesn't impact my instance.
     "Disable the live feeds of" - There's a not-live feed of local and federated? Or are you disabling local and federated entirely? If there's a not-live, how does one look at that one vs the live one?
     I assume "federated" is the same as "global" in my client. Any idea what "Explore" would be?