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1. Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Apr-2022 09:41:19 UTC Tagomago

   New follows led me to a point where I can't “eat“ the whole TL anymore. Can't eat the elephant. Hope I can get out of the vortex.

   • Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Apr-2022 11:18:55 UTC Tagomago

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     • Christian Horn

     @globalc That's what I do too, scroll down to where I left and start going up. Yes, I will have to prune the follows at some point, I'm one of those who can't not read everything, apparently. 😓

   • Christian Horn (globalc@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Apr-2022 11:18:56 UTC Christian Horn

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     • Tagomago

     @tagomago
     Yea.. also the web interface for me always shows latest, so in the morning I scroll back for half a minute, and start reading. I wonder how others cope with this.
     The obvious solution is to unfollow least interesting people.

   • Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Apr-2022 11:49:48 UTC Tagomago

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     • Christian Horn
     • eriol 🍥

     @globalc @eriol Also filters can be applied both on Mastodon and tt-rss (more specifically) to reduce the numbers.

   • Christian Horn (globalc@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Apr-2022 11:49:50 UTC Christian Horn

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     • Tagomago
     • eriol 🍥

     @eriol
     An other point is that one is not seen as follower. Sometimes follower numbers are interesting to see bot accounts.

     Hm.. tinytinyrss might actually have good infrastructure to deal with that. One can do a section with feeds of mastodon users, and also have updates in that section expire/get removed if one did not read them for X days.

     I'm actually proud we have these choices - on twitter you can just 'eat it all', all updates from accounts.
     @tagomago

   • eriol 🍥 (eriol@pleroma.debian.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Apr-2022 11:49:51 UTC eriol 🍥

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     • Tagomago
     • Christian Horn
     @globalc @tagomago my fear moving someone to RSS is that anyway I will not be able to read them all anyway (I already have an average of 300 post unread on my RSS feed). I was looking at hometown instead, for this specific feature:
     
     https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki/Exclusive-lists
     
     So just move people out of the home timeline, and just read them when I feel I have time to do so. But the cost is high, since this solution means to move to hometown :(
   • Christian Horn (globalc@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Apr-2022 11:49:53 UTC Christian Horn

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     • Tagomago

     @tagomago I might unfollow some (you are one of the more verbose ones, btw ;), and put their updates as rss-feed into my 'tiny tiny rss' instance.
     Might be worth trying if the feeds there are easier to read.

   • Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Apr-2022 11:52:55 UTC Tagomago

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     • Christian Horn
     • eriol 🍥

     @globalc @eriol I boost a lot, maybe I should boost less.

   • Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Apr-2022 15:22:08 UTC Tagomago

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     • Christian Horn
     • eriol 🍥

     @eriol @globalc Actually there's a feature being built for that: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/108119475510800815

   • eriol 🍥 (eriol@pleroma.debian.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Apr-2022 15:22:10 UTC eriol 🍥

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     • Tagomago
     • Christian Horn
     @globalc it feels strange also to me... (and I don't think personally I have the energy to manage multiple accounts...).
     
     The parallels to verbose switch of unix tools is interesting: I would love also a way to filter for language. I mean, if I post in my native language maybe I'm saying something very important, but everyone that don't speak that language maybe would want to ignore. :)
     
     I think human interaction is a complex problem :)
     
     @tagomago
   • Christian Horn (globalc@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Apr-2022 15:22:12 UTC Christian Horn

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     • Tagomago
     • eriol 🍥

     @tagomago
     I saw people on twitter approaching that in opening multiple twitter-accounts whom one could follow all together or separated, and just boost topicwise into each of these.
     Feels strange though, I would divide my content into 'Japan', 'opensource' and 'other' maybe.

     I also see parallels to - - verbose switch of unix tools. The one writing something would have to decide "this is important" or "not", and readers could say "just give me important stuff".
     @eriol

   • Imogen (imgn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Apr-2022 15:40:32 UTC Imogen

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     • Tagomago

     @tagomago Turning off global boosts has helped me for now. I can 'almost' keep up with my timeline. But this is not a good long-term solution since I also like to see what others are sharing. Lists might be a good solution, but you have to be following someone to add them 😓

   • Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Apr-2022 16:57:37 UTC Tagomago

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     • Imogen

     @imgn Yeah :-D Personally I don't like lists, that's like an enabler to follow more people. I prefer following few people.