I don’t really browse the public timeline but when I do, I wish I never looked at it again.
The local timeline of the instance that I am on is pretty good and well moderated.
The public timeline should be removed imo
I don’t really browse the public timeline but when I do, I wish I never looked at it again.
The local timeline of the instance that I am on is pretty good and well moderated.
The public timeline should be removed imo
The global timeline:
This is what I usually see when I open up the global timeline.
Even the developer of mastodon is aware of this and has not even included the global timeline in the official iOS app because the global timeline is not friendly to new users.
Its a useless feature imo.
“pictures of cats, rabbits, etc”
… that sounds like awesome content to me :P
with that said, I agree. the “water hose” global timeline is in most cases completely useless. I don’t think it should be removed completely. But I do think it should get disabled/hidden/etc… Make space for something more useful. :P
That’s what I see when I open up the federated timeline on two different Mastodon instances and snapshot the top page or so of content. (Well, without the glitch in the screen capture, obviously.) Notably absent:
Even had there been:
In short, the only useless thing I’m seeing is the whining about the global feed.