mastodon would do so much better if they'd just call instances "neighborhoods" and said that you should pick your neighborhood based on your interests, so that if you look out your window you'll see your neighbors doing things you find interesting. and that it's okay if you find out you don't like your neighborhood, because you can just move to another one! and all your followers will move with you
and then, yanno, make it easier to search for people you wanna follow cause that shit just sucks
@eniko That's a great idea.
I think, you can't follow the whole instance, can you? That would be really helpful.
It looks like, that Fedilab it implemented on the client side though.
@berkes yup I am aware of the local tab. The original idea is about being able to follow other servers/instances. So not your local one. I have my private instance for example, so local us just me. But would like to bring posts from other servers, which are topical.
Also TIL that you can easily get rss feeds (append `.rss` to URLs).
@bobek Apparently there isn't, there's an open issue here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/17269
While I see the benefit, it also poses a threat to instances being indexed. It would make it even easier for bad actors (states, marketing, cambridgeanalytics) to monitor and index the entire fediverse. So it's a tradeoff.
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