How often do you use the federated timeline?
Please, add a comment explaining why you do or do not use it; what's cool about it and what are the problems.
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@rastinza I'm just seeing a firehose. Is there a *good* way to use it?
@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.