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Mastodon should have a feature for including the public timelines of other instances as well as a "neighborhoods" feature I've been advocating for a while.
This might help with the alienation between instances, and allow for better experiences on smaller ones.
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@josias It's kinda unfortunate that no frontend seems to make use of the option to pull timelines from foreign instances via API (unless that's disabled in their admin interface).
I only know of Mastoview (which doesn't seem to work very well anymore nowadays - see http://www.unmung.com/mastoview?url=benign.town&view=local for example), and Subway Tooter on Android has an option to load foreign timelines.
I am running #hubzilla as my main account, I am hoping this feature could be #fediverse wide.
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@galaxis I think having this as a backend feature would also be useful, so it syncs between clients. I think QOTO.org does this, but I haven't checked it out.
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@kinetix They don't. This isn't about a small instance receiving posts. It's about sorting them and not relying on the firehose of the Federated timeline.
I explain the neighborhoods idea here: https://benign.town/@josias/108575497754748728
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https://benign.town/@josias/108578749082470776
Basically, I'm not necessarily looking for an increase in post volume, but rather an increase of community.
Instead of merging everything into the federated timeline, this would enable viewing posts from specific instances, like those that share common values.
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@schmaker Short answer, no. This is something different.
Also answered here: https://benign.town/@josias/108578761308338004
An explanation of the idea: https://benign.town/@josias/108575497754748728
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@josias I thought that's what Federation meant when I was seeing up my instance!
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@pwarren Federation works fine, of course. This is just a suggestion for fostering inter-instance communities.
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@josias I like those ideas.
For those who can't wait, #Fedilab already allows you to "subscribe" to other instances' public timelines.