Mastodawn

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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pndy

@staff if this is about spam that flies all the time within federated global feed then you've pick a really bad way to combat it.

because now it feels like there's no more than 100 people everywhere. that gives even worse feeling than stream which doesn't stop producing content.

as some other users said, an option to show these streams should be available within preferences. arbitrary removing this feature bears strong corporate-style thinking and decision making