We plan to disable the "live feeds" of the local and federated timelines on mastodon.social within in the next couple of weeks.
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@staff this is a good decision.
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@64bithero Search is not limited to hashtags, and can help you find things to follow. Note that these feeds as seen from here likely differ significantly from feeds you see on your instance.
We recognize these feeds are useful on smaller servers, they are just not particularly useful on ours.
Lots of your users have replied saying they are and they use them.
Who knows better, you, or your users?
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We plan to disable the "live feeds" of the local and federated timelines on mastodon.social within in the next couple of weeks. They are already disabled on mastodon.online. While these feeds can be useful on smaller, topical or regional servers, they have limited use on larger servers like ours.
The live feeds present all content on the server immediately and essentially pre-moderation, which presents a particularly poor experience to new users finding the fediverse for the first time.
Move to a better instance, that doesn't gatekeep how you use it.
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We plan to disable the "live feeds" of the local and federated timelines on mastodon.social within in the next couple of weeks. They are already disabled on mastodon.online. While these feeds can be useful on smaller, topical or regional servers, they have limited use on larger servers like ours.
The live feeds present all content on the server immediately and essentially pre-moderation, which presents a particularly poor experience to new users finding the fediverse for the first time.
@staff These views were optional. New users could ignore them if they wanted.
I'd like both the local and global views restored for me, if possible.I relied on the serendipity these views availed as a window to the Fediverse, allowing the discovery of new people, interests that I couldn't search for because I probably don't know about; ones that are not necessarily trending.
I would have understood a scaling justification, though.
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We plan to disable the "live feeds" of the local and federated timelines on mastodon.social within in the next couple of weeks. They are already disabled on mastodon.online. While these feeds can be useful on smaller, topical or regional servers, they have limited use on larger servers like ours.
The live feeds present all content on the server immediately and essentially pre-moderation, which presents a particularly poor experience to new users finding the fediverse for the first time.
@staff Yeah, so I'm just now learning about this and want to join the chorus of folks lamenting this change. I use both the Federated and Local timelines on a regular basis. Not a fan of this instance taking a Meta-like direction...
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@staff Yeah, so I'm just now learning about this and want to join the chorus of folks lamenting this change. I use both the Federated and Local timelines on a regular basis. Not a fan of this instance taking a Meta-like direction...
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Recommended follows, trending, and searching for hashtags all provide a far better discovery experience for newcomers, and we intend to improve discovery features more in 2026.
Note that we do have the ability to restore live feed access to individual users, and will consider this on a case-by-case basis. We will proactively reach out to trusted flaggers to offer this in advance.
@staff The idea is good, but please, I'd like to have the feeds to my account. Thanks.
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Recommended follows, trending, and searching for hashtags all provide a far better discovery experience for newcomers, and we intend to improve discovery features more in 2026.
Note that we do have the ability to restore live feed access to individual users, and will consider this on a case-by-case basis. We will proactively reach out to trusted flaggers to offer this in advance.
@staff
Looking forward to that. Keep up the good work.
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@staff These views were optional. New users could ignore them if they wanted.
I'd like both the local and global views restored for me, if possible.I relied on the serendipity these views availed as a window to the Fediverse, allowing the discovery of new people, interests that I couldn't search for because I probably don't know about; ones that are not necessarily trending.
I would have understood a scaling justification, though.
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We plan to disable the "live feeds" of the local and federated timelines on mastodon.social within in the next couple of weeks. They are already disabled on mastodon.online. While these feeds can be useful on smaller, topical or regional servers, they have limited use on larger servers like ours.
The live feeds present all content on the server immediately and essentially pre-moderation, which presents a particularly poor experience to new users finding the fediverse for the first time.
@staff That's the only thing keeping me on mastodon. I loved using the live feed. Bye.
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We plan to disable the "live feeds" of the local and federated timelines on mastodon.social within in the next couple of weeks. They are already disabled on mastodon.online. While these feeds can be useful on smaller, topical or regional servers, they have limited use on larger servers like ours.
The live feeds present all content on the server immediately and essentially pre-moderation, which presents a particularly poor experience to new users finding the fediverse for the first time.
@staff at least make it an opt-in feature in the preferences...
the live feeds were great...
edit: i would like to have them reactivated for my account, if possible
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Recommended follows, trending, and searching for hashtags all provide a far better discovery experience for newcomers, and we intend to improve discovery features more in 2026.
Note that we do have the ability to restore live feed access to individual users, and will consider this on a case-by-case basis. We will proactively reach out to trusted flaggers to offer this in advance.
@staff Please restore live feed access for both local and global to me.
Also, please consider reversing this decision. As it is, I've taken many breaks from Mastodon due to the difficulty of discoverability. If this stays, I simply will never use the platform, which would be a damn shame.
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Recommended follows, trending, and searching for hashtags all provide a far better discovery experience for newcomers, and we intend to improve discovery features more in 2026.
Note that we do have the ability to restore live feed access to individual users, and will consider this on a case-by-case basis. We will proactively reach out to trusted flaggers to offer this in advance.
@staff I miss the live feed. Bring it back! Trending is too much like for-profit platforms that only show what's algorithmically popular. Quit trying to be Twitter/Facebook/etc. and let the users control their own experience.
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@staff That's the only thing keeping me on mastodon. I loved using the live feed. Bye.
@nrstric most other instances have live feed.
It is possible to move, without much trouble
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Recommended follows, trending, and searching for hashtags all provide a far better discovery experience for newcomers, and we intend to improve discovery features more in 2026.
Note that we do have the ability to restore live feed access to individual users, and will consider this on a case-by-case basis. We will proactively reach out to trusted flaggers to offer this in advance.
@staff Is reaching out to so-called trusted flaggers mandatory or just obeying in advance?
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We plan to disable the "live feeds" of the local and federated timelines on mastodon.social within in the next couple of weeks. They are already disabled on mastodon.online. While these feeds can be useful on smaller, topical or regional servers, they have limited use on larger servers like ours.
The live feeds present all content on the server immediately and essentially pre-moderation, which presents a particularly poor experience to new users finding the fediverse for the first time.
@staff Please restore my Live Feeds! Best would be to bring it back for everyone as an option imho,
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@staff Is reaching out to so-called trusted flaggers mandatory or just obeying in advance?
@ThomasKdot When we refer to trusted flaggers here, we are actually referring to Mastodon users who file a lot of high quality reports. They're ordinary users who contribute a lot of effort to making the network nicer for everyone else!
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@staff may I have my Live Feed restored?
@staff Hello. I seem to have lost my Live Feed again. Anything I should know?
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Recommended follows, trending, and searching for hashtags all provide a far better discovery experience for newcomers, and we intend to improve discovery features more in 2026.
Note that we do have the ability to restore live feed access to individual users, and will consider this on a case-by-case basis. We will proactively reach out to trusted flaggers to offer this in advance.
I'd like life feed access.
And agree with the part where it might not be a smooth experience for newcomers.
However having only the fully curated experience is very limiting.
Having the option to enable live feeds somewhere in the UI would be much better for those feeling adventurous.
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@staff Please restore my Live Feeds! Best would be to bring it back for everyone as an option imho,
@staff Thanks for restoring the live feeds for me.
