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People really do be needing to look at the Local and Global timelines. There’s a lot of chatter about regular, non-linuxy things there.
Honestly, I think I’m completely sold on the idea that the Local timeline should be the default.
I love the idea of the decentralized services, but trying to browse global all is a nightmare. Even browsing local all I have a ton of communities blocked and add more every day. The only downside is when communities I like migrate to a different instance. I still try global all once every few months, but it never lasts long.
This is so cool
According to the feedback, I just shut down this project, perhaps permanently. Sorry for all the harm I caused.
Anyone know if this harm was anything more than just hitting API limits?
There’s a pretty strong no-scraping (and scraping-adjacent) sentiment within Mastodon
People are upset that the things they posted publicly are viewable publicly?
The feeling is that simply having it be public isn’t an automatic license to re-use or “re-appropriate” the content outside of what’s required for normal network functionality. From that perspective, federating a post to a normal Mastodon / fediverse server = OK, viewing that post in your browser = OK, but many other uses = not OK.
This subset of the userbase want the norm for “extracurricular uses” of people’s posts to be opt-in only, even for public posts. I kind of envy the idea in some ways (aggressive requirement of consent), though in the world we currently live in, it does seem unrealistic without a team of lawyers behind it.
I have no idea.I tried yesterday to figure out what that ment…but the original site is down.
This is what people didn’t want. But it was inevitable that eventually that people would stop complaining about the newest iteration of this.
Well, not to shit on the idea too much, but right now as of posting, looking at ~100 posts in the feed and the majority are bots, automated posts, or otherwise “brand” posts, not just regular people, and a few are Threads users or bridged Bluesky/Xitter accounts.
Doing a quick label:
- Human: https://503junk.house/@pettylarcen/113799872963899948
- Bot / Automated: https://flipboard.com/@thehindu/national-dkoomk3rz/-/a-Wrbuqb96QnuLzyLZOzNr5A%3Aa%3A2437248393-%2F0
- Brand: https://jforo.com/@pg/113799872842675573
- Brand: https://mastodon.social/@revistahamartia/113799873103967261
- Bot / Automated: https://beige.party/@weird_prompts/113799872991959203
- Bot / Automated: https://flipboard.com/@einvestidor/e-investidor-3hlliu9sz/-/a-qXSCrokETXuobrs7LeTyIA%3Aa%3A3418138642-%2F0
- Human: https://techhub.social/@davey_k/113799873017718358
- Human: https://social.vivaldi.net/@ladychelseaofthevoid/113799873046250477
- Human: https://mastodon.social/@zandra/113799873097548123
- Bot / Automated: https://flipboard.com/@einvestidor/e-investidor-3hlliu9sz/-/a-XeAr1Gw6Tzq_TloPwjtlfg%3Aa%3A3418138642-%2F0
- Bot / Automated: https://mastodon.social/@Kochi/113799873124639124
- Unknown Bridged Bluesky acount (it’s private and not in English so it’s harder to label): https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:crkrjt6p5j3jfvmyvtmgnflc/post/3lfddis6avk2u
- Bot / Automated: https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/113799873284418993
- Threads User: https://www.threads.net/@willianmax/post/DEnWuIvvG5n
- Bridged Bluesky User: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dctqr7kcavgggjipg6s2xc56/post/3lfddip6ih22r
- Human: https://douchi.space/@albusdumbledore/113799873324955194
- Human: https://troet.cafe/@Verfassungklage/113799873394589676
- Human: https://inari.opencocon.org/@matoken/113799873421069677
- Bot / Automated: https://www.socialnews.xyz/2025/01/09/fadnavis-tells-officials-to-focus-on-completion-of-infra-projects-within-time-limits/
- Bridged Xitter User: https://x.com/QBsMVP/status/1877426082275553391?mx=2
- Bridged Xitter User: https://x.com/scottmerkin/status/1877426155701108895
- Bridged Xitter User: https://x.com/CodyStavenhagen/status/1877426072259580060
- Non-human Bridged Xitter User: https://x.com/TSN_Sports/status/1877426003338727654
- Human: https://mastodon.content.town/@operationpuppet/113799873136927423
- ???: https://masto.ink/@torontotv/113799873345457501
- Human: https://chaos.social/@chris_gammell/113799873391924201
- Bot / Automated: https://mastodon.social/@indie1023_playlist/113799873574333510
- Bridged Xitter User: https://x.com/DOrlandoAJC/status/1877425955049767055
- Non-human Bridged Bluesky User: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:y2g5vymm2cvveec6cnspcvzo/post/3lfddivgl5f2j
- Bridged Xitter User: https://x.com/kfitz134/status/1877426109018468540
- Human: https://kafeneio.social/@norshgaath/113799873389635436
- Bot / Automated: https://jb.md/@news/113799873554864843
- Bot / Automated: https://hachyderm.io/@selfcare/113799873596733002
- ???: https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/113799873638378451
- Bot / Automated: https://flipboard.com/@janettespeyer/glorious-islands-623snqlnz/-/a-6u8jQ1XER2iJNsaC0LHzqw%3Aa%3A76802984-%2F0
- Unlabeled Bot: https://mastodon.online/@MTBotProfound/113799873683782913
- Bot / Automated: https://flipboard.com/@ctvnews/atlantic-lgqhk918z/-/a-fZkbJZybQXGhrgdvRKcxpw%3Aa%3A2823982346-%2F0
- Brand: https://mastodon.social/@KashmirFight/113799873720744097
- Bot / Automated: https://bots.robots.rodeo/@orcspiration/113799873169974336
- Brand: https://mastodon.social/@luxuryelitefinds/113799873675082571
- Bridged Xitter User: https://x.com/NJDevils/status/1877426162068058396
- Threads User: https://www.threads.net/@ernestoacostame/post/DEnWuZduJoc
- Brand or Unlabeled Bot: https://mastodon.social/@Pahalikhabar/113799873753297734
- Human: https://mstdn.social/@Ttubretep/113799873669338700
- Human: https://fosstodon.org/@softlandinglinuxsystem/113799873694371626
- Human: https://dice.camp/@Covok/113799873844076786
- Bridged Bluesky User: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vpkw7cvu6eu742hvjk5wsxf2/post/3lfddj225h22x
- Bridged Bluesky User: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2yuhperkb7ob5hhwshar4c5b/post/3lfddj5sxq32m
- Bot / Automated: https://mastodon.scot/@railway_regret/113799873833612028
That’s getting close to the 5k character limit, but you get the idea. This has actually negatively influenced my opinion on fediverse activity. I didn’t realize that such a high share of the activity wasn’t actually just “normal users”.
I have tried to use Mastodon, and I appreciate what is is, but I just don’t see the appeal. It feels like I’m trying to interact with nothing, and no one, ever seeing it. Feels like speaking to the void.
