I feel like I'm shouting this into the #void , but maybe it's worth a try: How am I supposed to filter out #information on #mastodon ? Every single #timeline is overwhelming, even my followed timeline, even though I only follow like 20 people. It's so hard to keep up with the #threads that fill up my whole #feed while the #local and #federated timelines are updated every second. The #trending timeline is filled with #stuff idgaf about. Any #help ?
@pussista Seems like hashtags worked. I see this post.
If you don't follow many people now, it could be good point to start using lists (it would be definitely easier than starting from almost 2k following as I started). You could group by topics, people personally known or groups for less active accounts to prevent them to be burried below more active info streams. This is up to your decision how you divide this. And one account could be added to more than one group.
Federated timeline is always big chaos. Searching via hashtags is good way to find desired topics and hashtags can also be followed - but currently cannot be added to lists.
I hope some of this could help.
@madargon Thank you for the detailed write-up! However, I still have a question: How do I create these lists you talked about? I can't find a way to do so in the official iOS app.
@pussista Oops, I didn't expect official app doesn't support it yet... Downloaded official for test (I use Tusky on phone and web version on desktop) and couldn't find it.
Maybe it's not here, official app was released after many third party ones and still could have less functions now.
Anyone with official #MastodonApp, could you confirm lists are not here yet? Or it's me who couldn't find? #AskFedi
@madargon I looked everywhere and couldn't find anything related to lists. What I ended up doing was having phanpy.social open where I created the lists and then added people from my very modest follower list to those curation lists. Clunky and very much over the place (like everything here tbh 🥰), but at least it worked.
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