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Can you join multiple "local" timelines? Ie, lets say you join an OSS dev focused federation and you like it. Down the line, it grows and becomes less HN, more

Can you join multiple "local" timelines? Ie, lets say you join an OSS dev focused federation and you like it. Down the line, it grows and becomes less HN, more Reddit. Okay, you say to yourself, time to move to the next HN-like you find. So you do that, but it's small, and feels dead. Seeing feeds from both the old, somewhat bad and the new, better but still too small would ease migration woes. Is that possible?

ColinWright 8y ago
You can start a new account on a new instance, watch the old account on the old instance, see which people are still worth following, then follow them from the new instance account. I've done that and it worked a treat. You can also export the list of people you follow and import that into the new instance, then unfollow anyone who says stupid things. My experience is that all platforms reward putting in a small amount of effort to curate those I follow and engage with. Unless you do that you end up with the shower of complete crap hiding the nuggets worth having. With a comparatively small amount of effort you can get a high-quality stream with very little crap, and then you can block or filter that.