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.
good decision. the magic of decentralized social is that you only have to see what you choose to, like the web. if somebody was trying to decide whether to leave AOL in the early 90s and looked at a feed of all the websites then being created to decide (hate sites included), it would deter them and not help them understand the experience of "web surfing" or what searching would turn up etc.
So now the can't "choose" for see what others are posting on their instance.
Or in the rest of the feduated instances.
Some of us want to see that sometimes.
Trending hashtag or posts won't let you find interesting people with small followings or non popular haatags.
Taking away choices, isn't letting people choose.
Mastodon.social Staff
william.maggos
Supermoosie
J