TedNov 14, 2022

The Official Applications are great if you're on a huge instance, but it only prominently features your Home feed, the one you directly curate.

The Local feed is just the community on your instance, and can be a lovely thing to interact with! In the Official applications, this is hididen under the Search icon, with the tab Community.

Meanwhile, the Federated feed is a combination of ALL the public Local feeds from every instance yours is connected with! It's a firehose, but a wonderful way to discover new people! The Official applications do not surface the Federated feed at all.

Especially if you're newer to the Fediverse, or on a smaller instance, I strongly recommend checking out some of the third party applications, such as MetaText or Toot! for iOS, or Tusky for Android, or tooot for either, to be able to experience all this platform has to offer!

#fediTips

Show threadMatthew HembyNov 20, 2022

@esdin could you do something innovative with the federated feed, on the client level? Or would that inevitably be an algorithm? Maybe one you could tune?

I’ve heard concern on overly specific servers creating echo chambers/post anxiety. Could make community silo-ing worse than Twitter ever was. (eg. the one I’m on, which feels weird to post life stuff to)

Show threadTedNov 20, 2022

@heavypixel heard similar concerns from foks! Culture is hard to divert, but that should ONLY affect your Local Feed.

Theoretically you could do some cliient retuning of the Federated data? I'm not familiair enough with ActiviityPub at a low level to know how much control you'd have, but at some point you get the plaintext

Show threadMatthew Hemby

@esdin feels like in lieu of an API you would need some sort of broad caching service, which would be complicated and expensive.

But, yeah, im not that technical on #activitypub plumbing (yet).

Nov 20, 2022 at 5:16pmWeb