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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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.
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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.
@staff @64bithero
> We recognize these feeds are useful on smaller servers, they are just not particularly useful on ours.Should you not give users the option to decide that for themselves? I found it was helping to get out ones own bubble. I'd like mine restored please...
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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 if this is about spam that flies all the time within federated global feed then you've pick a really bad way to combat it.
because now it feels like there's no more than 100 people everywhere. that gives even worse feeling than stream which doesn't stop producing content.
as some other users said, an option to show these streams should be available within preferences. arbitrary removing this feature bears strong corporate-style thinking and decision making
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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 Hey! I noticed the Mastodon streaming access was removed. Would it be possible to get access to it again?
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@staff Thanks for restoring the live feeds for me.
@Kletskous @staff how did you get them restored?
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@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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@Kletskous @staff how did you get them restored?
@collette I just asked them.
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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 Hello, can you restore my access to the live feeds? Thanks in advance!
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@collette I just asked them.
@Kletskous it worked! how nice!
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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 i literally joined this website for this, why are you copying stuff like twitter/insta/reddit if you're supposed to be an alternative.... enshitiffication really strikes everywhere
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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 I think this as terrible idea, and since Mastodon.social is the de facto face of Mastodon, this is going to drive people away. Please bring the live feeds back, at least as an option.
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