Has anyone experienced it on #QOTO? Its the second time @ClaraListensprechen4 had this happen but I'm trying to figure out if its specific to them or a general problem.

@freemo I've had something similar before, but it's been a long time. I stopped using the federated tab on account of it being way too full of low quality content that made it hard to find anything useful + nsfw things I didn't want on my screen.

The federated tab is very much drinking from the firehouse in terms of content, and Mastodon has a default rate limit of three hundred API calls per five minutes (i.e. one per second, on a five minute average). I dunno if QOTO changed that - we have some things like post length limit that are better than default - but there's some limit, anyway. My working hypothesis is that just fetching the new posts gets pretty close to whatever the cutoff is, but doesn't bust it; and sometimes the web client has to make additional API calls that blow the budget. The quoted post mentions that a video came up, so fetching the media file is a plausible additional step that could be to blame.

I believe there is a "slow mode" in the settings. Maybe try that and see if the problem goes away?

@ClaraListensprechen4

@khird @freemo
Ya, Kyle, the fact that I use the Federated selection almost exclusively sounds like what might be the cause, per your description. I'm always on that one even if I choose other selections on occasion; that's my main go-to.

One of the reasons I deleted my account on Universedon is because the Federated option disappeared (I guess it updated software and it became "other servers" or something that wasn't available on my main page).

Federated is important over here.

@ClaraListensprechen4 @khird @freemo I've just recently discovered how useful the federated tab is. Anyone aware of developments to apply user-selected filters on it? I'd be interested to help out with developing that, as I think it's a current weakness of the fediverse.