wtf, just read Purism's new article where they ""explain"" why their instance doesn't have a local+federated timeline.
They talk about a ton of nasty stuff that birdsite does, which aren't relevant to Mastodon at all. Then it all boils down to (direct quote):
"The downside to local and federated timelines is that there are also a bunch of posts you aren’t interested in from people you don’t want to follow. You don’t opt in to that feed so when it gets content that you particularly find offensive, distasteful, or not aligned with your views there’s little recourse unless your opinion of undesirable content happens to match those of the central moderators."
first of all, you do opt-in to looking at those feeds, you can just uhh, not go to those tabs.
secondly it's another effect of their previous stance, where it seems they want to make money off librem one, *without* doing any moderation.
https://puri.sm/posts/opt-in-no-ads-and-no-tracking-solve-a-lot-of-problems-in-society/
