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joyeusenoelle / GuideToMastodon

An increasingly less-brief guide to Mastodon
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Home Timeline is not Defined #38

Open andyanderson opened 2 years ago

andyanderson commented 2 years ago

The section about the Local and Federated timelines imply the existence of a personal timeline, but the latter is not described. Later in the document there is a reference to the “Home” timeline. I therefore think it would be a really good idea to add this italicized text or something similar to the section on “How is it like Twitter”:

You post relatively-short status updates, and you can see a streaming list of your friends' status updates. Your posts and those of people you are following appear on your Home timeline, visible when you click on the Home button.

And in the section “How is it not like either of those; or, What are the Local and Federated Timelines?”, add a reference to the user interface, something like this:

Mastodon has two additional timelines that you can view: the Local timeline and the Federated timeline , which each have their own buttons.

Thanks!

joyeusenoelle commented 2 years ago

I'll include this in the next revision, thank you!

timtfj commented 1 year ago

I think the added text should also explicitly mention that Home on Mastodon is equivalent to Latest Tweets on Twitter (not to Home), and is chronological.

Home on Twitter is the view which decides what to show you and in what order, and Twitter likes to force it on people after a while by overriding their Latest Tweets setting.

Maybe a wording like:

Unlike Twitter's Home view, Mastodon's Home timeline is completely chronological. So it's equivalent to their Latest Tweets view, not the Home one.

joyeusenoelle commented 1 year ago

Sorry to leave you hanging. I've made changes reflecting your request; please let me know if I should do anything differently.