There are so many interesting people here on Mastodon that my timeline is overflowing 😛 And my obsessive/compulsive nature won’t let me continue with anything till I’ve completed going through my home timeline in the morning …

Things are exacerbated by the fact that Akkoma will show you all replies by somebody you follow — not just replies to conversations you started with them. So it just piles up ...

So, I think I’m going to clean up my home timeline by moving some people who I really like following but who have massive output to a list and then unfollowing them. That way, my hometimeline will remain manageable and I can dip into the list whenever I have the time and still be able to see content from others that I really would have liked to have followed …

Seeems reasonable? I don’t know… Guess I’ll see how it goes 🙂

#Fediverse #Timelines #ManagingTime

@f I enjoy the replies and timeline features on Akkoma, but wish for a “compact” option. Show only the first post or reply of the day with an link at the bottom like:
+ See 5 more posts.

@qb That would be an awesome feature 🙂 Akkoma does seem to get developed at quite a brisk pace and so if you were to ask, they might actually implement it? Unless of course, you’ve already asked … 😛

@at I’ll know tomorrow morning since early morning is when the enormity of the timeline hits me 😛

I don’t know if Akkoma works in a different way with regards to lists since the list I set up is populated, but I set up the list before I unfollowed each of those people. So again I guess I’d have to wait a day and see if the list gets any new content or if it is only the old content from before I unfollowed.

I guess based on the Masto/Fedi philosophy of putting privacy first, having lists not be populated if you don’t follow the person makes sense. But the trouble is that if you mute a person then they are removed from both home timeline and lists. So that doesn’t help either.

I just want a way to have a manageable home timeline and then possibly a set of lists where I can put other interesting but high-volume people. Will let you know if I have any success 🙂

@f I’m still new to Akkoma- with so many settings, maybe there’s a following ‘max post per day’ limit or something.
I did just discover reply setting that could reduce traffic (screenshot)

@qb As far as I know, there is no max posts per day setting 🙂 I did know about the setting from your screenshot but always assumed that that was only for the web frontend and I use a third-party client. But I should have verified …

Also, it’s possible to add some of the stuff that I want to third-party clients and I might actually have to end up doing it that way since somebody else mentioned that lists might not work for what I had in mind (at least on the Mastodon side) since lists only show posts if you follow an account ... I guess I’ll see after testing for a day or so …

@at To update you on the lists situation, well, the pruning did work in giving me a nice manageable hometimeline. There’s only like one third the notifications from overnight (of course, this is a weekend so the volume is lower) and I am able to make my way through the reduced timeline so much easier.

But … you were right about the lists 🙂 Akkoma appears to work the same as Mastodon in that you have to be following someone in order for their posts to show up in a list.

I did look this up for Mastodon and there’s an open feature request asking that either users be able to have lists without following people or be able to filter out people in lists from their home timeline but there doesn’t seem to be much movement on it.

So I think I’ll have to end up doing this client-side. Just filter out posts/boosts on the home timeline from people who are on my lists. This should be easy enough if you have source code to the client and that should theoretically allow you to have the functionality I wanted. I guess I’ll try that and see …

@at I wouldn’t say “energy” exactly … but I’m very picky about what I want and if I can’t have it, then I guess I’ve got to create it 😛