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> Your Mastodon timeline is only made up of posts from accounts you follow, and does not pull together posts from the whole network like Bluesky’s custom feeds.
by DinaCoder99 3y ago
> Your Mastodon timeline is only made up of posts from accounts you follow, and does not pull together posts from the whole network like Bluesky’s custom feeds.
This seems like a major win for Mastodon. Bluesky is clearly spinning this as a positive, however, so what am I missing?
- steveklabnik 3y agoThese are optional things that you choose, and you can even write yourself. The default feeds are "posts of accounts you follow," just like Mastodon, so it's a positive because it's extra possibility on top. As a meaningful example: someone (not BlueSky themselves, I don't believe) published a "Quiet Posters" feed. I have subscribed to that. Now, in addition to "Following," and "For You," I have a "Quiet Posters" feed. This exclusively shows posts by people who don't post very often. Since subscribing to it, I have seen a lot more content from the folks who aren't as chatty as the people who fill up my timeline. That's very nice.