Side question, does anyone read those timelines? There’s like hundreds of posts an hour all in different languages, and even the local timeline would be a full time job to keep up with.
Personally, I don’t read either local or global timelines. I find noise to ratio is too high for me. I just follow people who post interesting content and use that as my timeline.
The experience will differ strongly between instances.
On instances with relatively few active users, there’s often hours between posts to the local timeline. You’ll be able to read all of those without problem.
You can even pretty much hold conversations via the local timeline without tagging people directly, and you probably know all active users on your instance.
On instances that federate with fewer other instances, the federated timeline can also be a lot less fast-moving and may lean more into certain topics, depending on what instances you’re federated with.
I additionally filter out a ton of people and words, but yeah, I can often keep up with posts on the federated timeline on my main instance.
And last but not least, you can specify what languages you understand in the settings. Then it will filter out posts in other languages relatively reliably.
I read them a lot, sometimes when I am bored I just look at the public timeline. Now and then I mute a bot that I don’t care about, so I mostly see posts by actual users there.
Side question, does anyone read those timelines? There’s like hundreds of posts an hour all in different languages, and even the local timeline would be a full time job to keep up with.
If you are on a community based instance you don’t have this problem
Personally, I don’t read either local or global timelines. I find noise to ratio is too high for me. I just follow people who post interesting content and use that as my timeline.
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The experience will differ strongly between instances.
On instances with relatively few active users, there’s often hours between posts to the local timeline. You’ll be able to read all of those without problem.
You can even pretty much hold conversations via the local timeline without tagging people directly, and you probably know all active users on your instance.
On instances that federate with fewer other instances, the federated timeline can also be a lot less fast-moving and may lean more into certain topics, depending on what instances you’re federated with.
I additionally filter out a ton of people and words, but yeah, I can often keep up with posts on the federated timeline on my main instance.
And last but not least, you can specify what languages you understand in the settings. Then it will filter out posts in other languages relatively reliably.
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I read them a lot, sometimes when I am bored I just look at the public timeline. Now and then I mute a bot that I don’t care about, so I mostly see posts by actual users there.
I sometimes scan them for things that might be interesting enough to subscribe to. That’s about it.
It’s definitely not something I try to keep up with, but it’s a nice scroll from time to time to discover things.
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