I simultaneously want each instance to feel more like a tight-knit, local community (by showing the local timeline, and having each instance have their own style of moderation) while also making it even easier to use one account to follow your favorite Lemmy groups, Pixelfed posters, and fave people from all over, to like and boost posts.
Best of both worlds.
Your own “home” timeline which is a sprawling eclectic selection of all your own faves from all over, and a local timeline that’s what’s going on in your instance right now, maybe the latter doesn’t even show boosts.
The attempt to try to be like Twitter with "the whole known network" was super misguided, as was the new Discover tab 🤬
@Sandra The federated timeline on this 900 user instance is only almost useless, I think it has some merit for discovery and bootstrapping.
I think the Discover tab is optional and turned off here (at the server level).
@Sandra
* > This add-on supports redirections from other systems in the Fediverse, namely GNU Social, Friendica and Pleroma. Especially in the first case, however, the support can be a little limited.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mastodon-simplified-federation/