Talking of organising your home timeline, or filtering, I’ve always treated the home timeline as my main source of info. I always read it, and I always read all of it. Which is why I needed filtering in the first place.

Now this might be fairly obvious to others, but I had a complete blindspot as to the fact that I could not look at the home timeline at all. I could simply create lists for all the people I follow, disregard the home timeline and simply look at the lists only. This would have removed a lot of the pain points I had around filtering …

But that’s not what I did.

And there was a reason for why I did things my way. My personal Fedi client has a notification feature which notifies me when the home timeline has posts. It adds a badge with a count to the app icon. Otherwise, I forget to look at posts at alll and might go through the whole day without reading what is going on in the Fediverse.

Sure, this is another *me* problem 😛 But for my personal reading style, just using lists and ignoring the home timeline would not have worked very well. But I guess if you do not have the specific need that I do, you could simply split up all the people you follow into lists and then disregard the home timeline?

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