Mastodon.social StaffJan 6

We plan to disable the "live feeds" of the local and federated timelines on mastodon.social within in the next couple of weeks. They are already disabled on mastodon.online. While these feeds can be useful on smaller, topical or regional servers, they have limited use on larger servers like ours.

The live feeds present all content on the server immediately and essentially pre-moderation, which presents a particularly poor experience to new users finding the fediverse for the first time.

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Recommended follows, trending, and searching for hashtags all provide a far better discovery experience for newcomers, and we intend to improve discovery features more in 2026.

Note that we do have the ability to restore live feed access to individual users, and will consider this on a case-by-case basis. We will proactively reach out to trusted flaggers to offer this in advance.

Show thread7sleepersmusicJan 7
@staff So I can request to have these feeds restored on my account? Is that correct? I enjoy the live feeds, I like to see what's going on out there, outside of my personal curated feed.
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@7sleepersmusic
Same, I hang out there and welcome newbies. That said, it's become a bit of a hellhole recently, but the solution there is not destroying discoverability but not expanding a single server to a size where moderation is so difficult it's probably nearly impossible?
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Feb 5 at 3:39amMastalab