@video_manager I sorted (some of) my followed accounts into lists. After doing that I basically never opened the lists again - they are so inconvenient and out of the way it's almost insulting.
To make it worse, lists don't work retroactively -- i.e. if I make a new list now called "People who don't spam" and add some of my followed accounts to it, the list would still be empty - I have to wait until they post something new. So I can't easily judge whether the list is what I want it to be.
"out of the way" - unless you pin them in the Advanced Web Interface (or equivalent)
You didn't have instant feedback the day you started. You didn't have everything the day you started Twitter, either.
Expecting a new experience to instantly have the feel of something you've used for any length of time is an unreasonable expectation. You don't start using ANYTHING - Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, AOL, UseNet- with the final experience. Why demand Fediverse/Mastodon instantly create your experience for you?
No it *doesn't* filter the home feed. So? Create one list with the stuff you want to "just see flow", another you want to focus on, and turn OFF (unpin) the home feed. Voila! Filtered.
How full was your home feed 30 seconds after you joined Mastodon?
So you're saying your home feed showed you a long list of toots for you to evaluate the instant you joined Mastodon?
At no point whatever have I said otherwise.
So What?
Wait. Let it get populated. You put accounts on that list for a reason. I have to assume you had a *reason* to do so, and an *expectation* of what the results would be. Do you somehow doubt your own choices?
As analogy, a new mastodon account won't have anything in their home timeline until they follow accounts - i.e. add accounts to a *LIST* - the following list - AND new toots come in.
How is this different in any way?
Tracy Hall
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