@rastinza I'm new to mastodon, so far I've been using it to familiarize myself with all the instances that are active and posting stuff that interests me, generating an occasional follow.
@rastinza I use it moderately so far. It’s fun to see the content racing. I also think it’s a good tool for discovering interesting posts and people.
@rastinza I'm just seeing a firehose. Is there a *good* way to use it?
@davoloid I'll be frank, I also feel it is quite useless.
Though you have to consider that we are on qoto, which is a large instance which does not block a lot of content.
I know some people use it a lot and this survey is done exactly to find good uses for it.
Surely in small and insular instances the federated timeline is a nice feature.
@davoloid There's a way to stop it. In Preferences > Appearance, check Slow Mode. That will “hide timeline updates behind a click instead of automatically scrolling the feed”.
I don't use it often, though, because I seldom use the Federated TL and because it turns it on for all timelines, which is not what I want.
@josemanuel @davoloid This solves only part of the problem, the part which is: the timeline moves so quick I cannot read.
It's a good setting to enable by all means; but it does not address the huge amount of things that come out there.
I believe there is no way to actually follow the federated timeline of a large instance, that would mean spending a very large amount of time each day reading a lot of useless stuff.
On the other hand it is nice every now and then to take a look and pick some interesting people to explore further.
@josemanuel @davoloid I tried doing that; it works for a few days maybe but it's not a sustainable endeavour.
A bunch of new accounts are created every day.
@rastinza It's a place to discover things, but the signal-to-noise ratio is low. There's also some really vile stuff in there if your instance has a loose federation policy.
