I hope at some point Mastodon will stop trying to copy a second rate TweetDeck UX, and instead give more room to breathe to my local timeline. Everything feels so cramped, right now, it's almost anxiety inducing

@ebassi Just turn off the advanced view and switch to the single timeline view in settings?

@trinsec @ebassi
Exactly, that's what I was going to suggest. I did it a long time ago and never looked back. Disable it and you'll get a nice, fairly uncluttered interface.

@sesivany @trinsec Except that now my followed tags simply disappear into the ether instead of being moved somewhere I can switch to…

@ebassi @sesivany in the preferences you can select which hashtags you want to follow and even in which timeline (list basically) you want them to be sent to.

@trinsec @sesivany thanks, but I have no idea how to do that; there’s no such preference on mastodon.social that I can see

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@ebassi @sesivany Oh, whoops. Good point, I keep forgetting that I am on an instance with a modified version of Mastodon, and it has this feature. Sorry about that!

I guess there's not really a way to follow hashtags on vanilla Mastodon.. The lists there seem to only be able to include people.

What you could do is bookmark the hashtags instead. For example, if you want to follow feditips, you would bookmark mastodon.social/web/tags/fedit there and use your browser's features to visit those. Not as convenient I'm afraid but that's the only solution I can currently think of with the simplified timeline.

@trinsec @sesivany thanks anyway, much appreciated; I hope things will improve on the vanilla Mastodon UX

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