@aaribaud @jonathankoren @mcc @foone
While I do get your point, two things:
1. It's not a big if for someone new to masto to not use the local/federated timelines. And so, not consider them a factor. That's very much a fediverse concept -- anything analogous on centralized social networks will basically be a completely uncurated firehose. Not appealing.
I've been on here for approaching 2 years now, and I've checked my local/federated timelines maybe 10-20 times ever, if I'm being generous.