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Public timeline is trash🤮 (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't really browse the public timeline but when I do, I wish I never looked at it again.

The local timeline of the instance that I am on is pretty good and well moderated.

The public timeline should be removed imo

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

That's what I see when I open up the federated timeline on two different Mastodon instances and snapshot the top page or so of content. (Well, without the glitch in the screen capture, obviously.) Notably absent:

hentai
porn
bots (I think, maybe there was some bot stuff in Japanese there)
random news articles
pictures of cats, rabbits, etc.

Even had there been:

content settings and blocks work for the first two
bots are easy to spot and block too
I actually like random news articles so …
pictures can be scrolled over easily or settings can be adjusted so you can't even see them

In short, the only useless thing I'm seeing is the whining about the global feed.