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magicstone-dev / ecko

Community-driven fork of Mastodon's federated social network software
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Problem: Federated timeline can be too noisy #485

Open jorgesat opened 1 year ago

jorgesat commented 1 year ago

The federated timeline can be too noisy and the local not enoguh to help users find topics of interest and participate in discussions around the instance's topic.

Proposed solution: Creating a bubble timeline where admins can add a group of instances with a common interest could be really useful for user and topic discoverability and networking. I am aware this feature is available on Akkoma but I am not sure this is portable to ecko.

weex commented 1 year ago

For those like who haven't heard of bubble timeline, it's a timeline made of toots from a specific set of instances, so creating a soft of bubble between a set of instances and the wider fediverse. https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma/pulls/100/files is an example implementation.

Again, putting this in the form of a problem statement, here's what I have: For a well-connected instance, the federated timeline is too noisy for users to discover accounts and topics of interest to them.