How do you not feel overwhelmed using Mastodon? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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I feel like everyone suggests following hashtags, but depending on the hashtag, I find the content that's being posted quite overwhelming when it comes to the amount of toots, and that it's hard to get an overview. Anyone that relates?

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[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

This is one reason (among many, sadly) that people abandoned or never bothered with Mastodon, and chose Bluesky instead. e.g. the latter has a "Catch Up" feed, for the most popular posts from the last 24 hours (so full of AOC stuff today:-). I check this occasionally throughout the week now, even without having an account there, to know what's going on.

But I vastly prefer the (Threadi-)Verse style of Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed. For comments, I love how they are sortable in terms of popularity of reception, rather than having to scroll endlessly through the list until you arbitrarily decide to stop. And for posts, grouped by community, although PieFed offers categories that bridge those together. So if you want News, on X/Bluesky/Mastodon I suppose you'd have to use an appropriate hashtag or follow a news-type account, while on the Verse (especially PieFed's categories of communities) it's just all right there together.

[-] VeSpectagles@sharkey.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Something cool to note is there's an interface for Mastodon called Phanpy with a Catch Up feature.

It allows for a more granular look at posts from the past from what I gather.

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[-] nomy@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

This is actually the beauty of the fediverse to me.

Anyone with the know-how (or will to learn) can fork some code and start implementing changes they want from their service. It's always been one of the biggest draws of *nix for me (and FOSS in general). I love the really granular control of being able to configure pretty much every setting or feature to the users liking.