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I think what's missing is that Mastodon doesn't cultivate the "Local timeline" in a way to encourage people to act like a community. On their iOS application I
by mariusor 4y ago
I think what's missing is that Mastodon doesn't cultivate the "Local timeline" in a way to encourage people to act like a community. On their iOS application I believe they actively removed the possibility of accessing it - which was hated on at the time, but the devs were very adamant to keep it like that.
There is a mastodon fork called Hometown, that gives the local timeline a higher importance, but I haven't used, I don't know the details.
- kertoip_1 4y agoTimeline should not be focused on posts from local server. It should be tag oriented. I think it would be better to show users posts about their interests and hobbies from all around the network, on whichever sever they were posted. What if I started my own server, just for me to manage my own data? What would "local timeline" look like then?
- mariusor 4y agoYou might be right from a purely theoretical perspective, but through the way the ActivityPub federation mechanism works, there' will be an inherent difference between local content (in easy reach on the same server) and remote content which would require additional HTTP requests to make sure you have the latest versions of the objects related to it (authors, recipients, etc).