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   Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 05:19:24 JST Evan Prodromou

   Very interesting! I am a qualified no.

   First there's no single "federated timeline". It's a Mastodon feature that lets you eavesdrop on the conversations of other people on your instance.

   As such, it's a place for discovery. It's explicitly stuff that you personally haven't subscribed to (yet). It's the feed of posts that aren't interesting to you.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 05:22:58 JST Evan Prodromou

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     All that said, it is nice for people to be able to explore there, and bulk automated posts probably fill it up and make discovery difficult. So it's probably polite for bots with a lot of repetitive posts to use "follower only" or "unlisted".

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 05:28:53 JST Evan Prodromou

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     Telling human posters that their posts are ruining the federated timeline for you is rude, though. Especially if they are using content warnings so you don't get surprised.

     Let people live their lives and post what they want. If you're not interested, scroll past it. If it's really bad, block or mute.

     And let's be grateful that people post things about themselves and make it public so we can all learn about it and the world.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 06:01:47 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Shoq

     @shoq I don't pretend to know everything. I think we are all making and remaking this place for ourselves again and again. I do like to think about how it could and should work, and I do have some strong opinions on certain parts of the architecture.

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     Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 06:01:49 JST Shoq

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     @evan Last night, a woman told me she thought you were a "know-it-all" about all things Fediverse. So I asked if she was aware that you co-invented the ActivityPub protocol and probably did know a few things she might want to know about. An hour later, after no response, I discovered that she had blocked me.

     ::Sigh:: The more things change…

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 06:36:32 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @gretared @shoq it's not that important. Toot! is a single-user server, right? So not really pertinent.

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     Gretchen Anderson (gretared@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 06:36:33 JST Gretchen Anderson

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     • Shoq

     @shoq @evan naïve question: I use Toot! I have no idea what the federated timeline is. Should I?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 06:50:12 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • n8chz ⒶⒺ

     @n8chz that's too bad. I am on a family instance of Mastodon where I am the primary user, so I don't ever check the public timelines here.

     I'm not a big believer in them anyway. They were a major pain in the ass for GNU Social and I left them out of pump.io entirely.

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     n8chz ⒶⒺ (n8chz@queer.party)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 06:50:14 JST n8chz ⒶⒺ

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     @evan Hm, this poll reached me in a "closed" state, but must confess I'm pulled toward "strong yes," based mostly on my recent test driving of #Friendica. The Friendica space does seem to me high in spam accounts, seotext blablabla accounts, media-outlet-unofficial mirrors, and other low-effort accounts. Finding conversation there (esp. in languages that are not German) is like finding a needle in a haystack.

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     JR (csosorchid@universeodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 06:52:57 JST JR

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     • Shoq

     @shoq @evan Well at least she modified her feed and didn’t ask you to change.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 06:52:57 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • JR

     @Csosorchid @shoq there we go!