nielsk
nielsk
So, I created now two additional mastodon-accounts for their local timelines on other instances. On my main-account my TL is interesting, but the federated timeline is just too full of uninteresting stuff
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hjertnes
hjertnes

@nielsk what do you think about mastadon?

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nielsk
nielsk

@hjertnes it is nice. I like the federated aspect of it but I wished I could have a client that lets me combine several instance-timelines into one, so that I wouldn’t need several accounts for interesting local timelines.

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nielsk
nielsk

@hjertnes your (initial) experience depends a lot on your instance-choice I think. So choose wise.

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hjertnes
hjertnes

@nielsk so if I'm on instance A and would like to follow someone from instance B and C: how does that work?

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nielsk
nielsk

@hjertnes you do a remote follow. That is no problem at all (except instances blocking each other but I’ve not seen this so far)

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hjertnes
hjertnes

@nielsk Okay. Why would I want to be on multiple instances?

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nielsk
nielsk

@hjertnes now it gets a bit more complicated. Each instance has a local timeline of all toots posted. And you have a federated timeline. When you follow B and C the local timelines of B and C get pulled into your federated timeline (at least this is my understanding how it works)

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nielsk
nielsk

@hjertnes so it is ok if you follow B and C because you have then some local timelines in your federated timeline but it gets too much too fast imho. And I follow like one Japanese user and now O have tons of Japanese toots in my federated timeline

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nielsk
nielsk

@hjertnes but I am interested especially in the local timelines of infosec.exchange and bsd.network, both quite specialized instances. Thus I created accounts there, so I can just read their local timeline.

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hjertnes
hjertnes

@nielsk I think I understand why mastadon isn't mainstream

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