@cliffwade 🥥 Pleez, what is this Advanced Web view of which you speak, Cliff, and how can I get there? (Aside from doing a search for "Mastodon Advanced Web View.")
Now that I live in a world where answers to most questions are at my fingertips, if only I could hit the right tiny letters on the miniscule keyboard and read the microscopic text in its non-contrasty font on the small screen.
Thank YOU for sharing kewl info.
I will now do a duck duck go. 🥥
Once a day seems the sweet spot to not get a ton of repeats. Try to use it every 3-4 hours and all you get is repeats. I scroll down looking at the time posted and only read the things more recent than I last looked. The computer should be able to do that for me.
@cliffwade I very rarely go to my home instance at all. I go to various others and scroll through their /explore feed. This makes the Fediverse less like a social network and more like Usenet, where something fun or interesting could show up from anyone.
@cliffwade I spend my time in Home but I think it’s due to the UI of @MonaApp bring optimized for it. When I take the time to go to the local timeline I usually enjoy it as well.
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I've only recently joined, I spend a lot of time now in Explore. Federated moves extremely fast on my desktop, if it didn't I would be on there more.
I visit very briefly a couple of times a day, but never go beyond Home and Local - no idea of how to get to federated and not sure that I'd bother with it - I'm not much of a social media type!
@cliffwade I clicked other. I spend most of my time looking at the hashtag timelines I've created columns for. It lets me see the content I'm mostly here for.
@cliffwade@gnitro I find it easier to drop hashtags into columns using the AWV than following them. That way the hashtags are segregated from the main timeline I'm trying to curate.
@cliffwade@gnitro If you pin the hashtag to a column, they'll all appear in a separate column. However, if you follow a hashtag, every post using that hashtag shows up in your Home timeline.
@jcrabapple@cliffwade@gnitro Advanced Web View lets you do multiple in a column. I have a column pinned that's got 3 hashtags in it (fan art, cosplay, cosplayer)
@cliffwade@kylewritescode Being on a single user instance, the local timeline is useless to me and the federated timeline very limited in scope (despite connecting to a relay).
As such I start browsing my home timeline, then move to local timelines of specific servers that I’ve pinned on the app I’m using (currently @MonaApp on both iOS and MacOS).
@cliffwade For me it's Home, Individual Lists I've made, then Local. In that order. I sometimes check the main Federated feed, but not as often as the others.
@cliffwade That's exactly what I do when using this in browser. I have lists for friends as well as individual lists for different topics / hobbies pinned on AWV. Its been very helpful for me.
And when you have that many, a scroll bar shows up at the bottom so you can go back and forth.
For reference, here's the many things I have currently pinned: Home; Notifications; Main Moots (List); Anime/Manga (List); Gaming (List); Artists (List); Fediverse Accounts (List); ACNH (List); Humor (List); Fanart/Cosplay (Hashtags); News (List); Favorites. I open up Local more on mobile, honestly.
@jcrabapple@kylewritescode@cliffwade As someone who spent YEARS in TweetDeck, AWV is exactly what I was looking for and it works well for me. But it's cool there's other interface options out there to try out.
npm run build generates all files into dist folder and can be deployed to any static hosting platforms (I probably should document this, it assumes you know how Vite works) 😆
@jcrabapple@cliffwade I originally hail from the Twitter realm. Before nuking that account, I had over 3000 followers & followed over 2000. If I didn't make columns with lists to sort folks and use an enhanced interface (TweetDeck), I'd never keep up with anyone.
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