Ohmz 🩴I think I might consolidate here? I dunno, might move to one of the other instances I'm on.
My experiment in sharding my interest across multiple masto instances has just meant I don't check masto because it's a chore.
Brian M Milton@ohmz As you can follow people on all the instances then the only thing you lose by being on one is the local feed, if that's your bag.
No need to make it difficult.
No need to make it difficult.
@munchkinstein @ohmz yeah, it was more segmenting my content. And my attention. So it’s easier to find game dev content on gamedev.place, there’s more writers on wandering.shop, more tech people on Hachyderm.io and the .scot one is better for finding local people. (I’m also on an instance for tech people, and one that specialises in shit posts)
There are some interests I only want to dive into occasionally.
@ohmz That makes sense. Have you tried out the expanded web version?
You can create columns for lists of things you follow and so could, in theory, have it all under one account but a column for each with the far end being stuff you don't look at so often.
You can create columns for lists of things you follow and so could, in theory, have it all under one account but a column for each with the far end being stuff you don't look at so often.
@munchkinstein @ohmz lists weren’t supported in the first client I used, and were poorly supported in the second. I need to go though and categorise folk, which was slow the last time I tried as it seemed to invoke API calls for each change. It’s probably better now.
@ohmz I'll admit to not using it hugely and not through a client but for things I only occasionally want to browse, having it on the web version on my laptop works well.
@munchkinstein @ohmz yeah it’s one of those features which I think I’d find useful, but realistically, I only use a laptop when I’m doing something I should be focusing on. So having ultimate mastodon UX on a laptop is counterproductive.
For lists to be useful I’d need them on mobile, where the real estate makes them less usable. It’s a quandary.
What Twitter did was stochastically give you popular posts from your lists, that was nice.
@ohmz @munchkinstein @ohmz I suppose what I want is a soft follow. There are some people who I want to see all their content, there are other who I want to remember who they are, but I’m not interested in the firehouse. And I want to categorise them by why I followed them.
@ohmz Makes sense.
When I'm at home I have the laptop here most of the time for idle time away from work and so I look there.
I should actually follow more people and have a 'Mild Interest' and a 'Firehose' list, now I think about it, but it is a bit of work and I get lazy. 🙂
When I'm at home I have the laptop here most of the time for idle time away from work and so I look there.
I should actually follow more people and have a 'Mild Interest' and a 'Firehose' list, now I think about it, but it is a bit of work and I get lazy. 🙂
@munchkinstein laziness is the great demotivator…