2026-01-06 19:56 UTC
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@staff@mastodon.social 2026-01-06 19:57
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.
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@mcnewton@mastodon.online 2026-01-06 20:22
@staff@mastodon.social Is this what would have broke the 'Local' page on Tusky? It stopped showing anything a few weeks ago, but I couldn't find any announcements with them or on mastodon.online's site to indicate anything that had changed, and no settings I could find could get it working again.
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@evan@cosocial.ca 2026-01-06 20:29
@staff@mastodon.social great!
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@wjmaggos@liberal.city 2026-01-06 20:33
@staff@mastodon.social good decision. the magic of decentralized social is that you only have to see what you choose to, like the web. if somebody was trying to decide whether to leave AOL in the early 90s and looked at a feed of all the websites then being created to decide (hate sites included), it would deter them and not help them understand the experience of "web surfing" or what searching would turn up etc.
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@FinchHaven@sfba.social 2026-01-06 20:53
@staff@mastodon.social "While these feeds can be useful on smaller, topical or regional servers, they have limited use on larger servers like ours." Maybe, just maybe: 1) @Mastodon@mastodon.social shouldn't be so gargantuan in the first place, and 2) Maybe y'all shouldn't be directing every possible newcomer within your grasp *to* Mastodon dot Social? Ya think? Nah, how silly of me Whatever am I even thinking? #Mastodon #MaxiFedi #Fediverse
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@urig@mastodon.online 2026-01-06 21:52
@staff@mastodon.social no longer a newcomer here and missing both the local and federated feeds. Would love to have them back. When I was a newcomer I didn't mind unmoderated content on those. Didn't expect moderation at the firehose.
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@BauBauS@mastodon.social 2026-01-06 22:02
@staff@mastodon.social So, how can then new people discover who they should follow ? That seems quite an anti-feature and disabling it will do way more damage than good. Just try to answer the questions: 1. If I am new here, how do I know who posts things that I may be interested in ? 2. If I am new here, how do I find out what hashtags I have to follow ? 3. If I am new here how do I see what people are talking about ? So, no. That is a really really bad idea !!!
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@MartyFouts@mastodon.online 2026-01-06 23:04
@staff@mastodon.social *sigh*. I guess I missed an announcement on online when you disabled the feeds. I have spent days trying to figure out why the client I use was failing on them. Did you also do something to trending? My client now only returns a smallish number of trending articles rather than the apparently endless stream it did before. I am disappointed to lose the federated feed. I find it a far more interesting form of discovery than trending. Please reenable it at least optionally
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@hellomiakoda@pdx.social 2026-01-07 02:01
@staff@mastodon.social I'm asking generally, as I'm aware what you just said doesn't impact my instance. "Disable the live feeds of" - There's a not-live feed of local and federated? Or are you disabling local and federated entirely? If there's a not-live, how does one look at that one vs the live one? I assume "federated" is the same as "global" in my client. Any idea what "Explore" would be?
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@mhoye@mastodon.social 2026-01-07 04:01
@staff@mastodon.social this is a good decision.
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@condret@fedi.absturztau.be 2026-01-07 07:34
@staff@mastodon.social you should stop accepting new users and tell people to go to smaller instances. The size of mastodon.social imposes a longterm threat to the decentralized fediverse.
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@CryogenicIce9@mastodon.online 2026-01-07 16:06
@staff@mastodon.social I don't understand why it has to be this way... A live feed could be a static page of formatted activitypub data updated every 10 seconds. There's absolutely nothing that anyone wants that *requires* it to be an ever updated endless scrolling page passed through the user's personal view. But hey, restrict the usefulness of finding new users, what do I know?
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@mystixa@ravenation.club 2026-01-07 17:25
@staff@mastodon.social Counterpoint. The live feeds are the best part of mastodon when starting out. This reads like its written by someone who is afraid to look at their email inbox because they 'have' to deal with it all and its overwhelming. Small servers its the only way to get any decent live feel. Large ones actually start to get some variety, especially when you're new and havent found many to explicitly follow. This is a poorly thought out decision.
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@jaz@toot.wales 2026-01-09 15:13
@staff@mastodon.social could I ask a clarifying question... is the intent to disable the two timelines by default but allow individual users to re-enable; or to disable entirely without any option to re-enable?
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@satchmo35@mas.to 2026-02-05 14:14
@staff@mastodon.social Limiting access or options to access information is not a good way to proceed. It takes away from the 'open' nature of the fediverse and the web in general.
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@gailen@mastodon.social 2026-02-05 22:51
@staff@mastodon.social The live feed was my favorite thing about mastodon. I don't want my feed curated for me and I like seeing whatever random stuff comes through.
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@mcSlibinas@mastodon.social 2026-02-05 23:23
@staff@mastodon.social i agree vith your choise, staff should do staff things. What's the alternatives? Which instances still have live feeds enabled and are big enough to have a lot of live feed? Please provide alternative: it will help you too! Some ppl will move out, and that's will make your staff job easier 🫡
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@gentlemangangster@mastodon.social 2026-02-06 12:02
@staff@mastodon.social I miss my federated and live feeds and would like them restored, please.
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@Ramirezca@mastodon.social 2026-02-06 19:58
@staff@mastodon.social es una lastima que de manera unilateral se haya tomado ésa decisión. Yo prefiero leer el TL y no seguir # ni usuarios. Espero reviertan esa decisión.
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@Isnotgood@mastodon.social 2026-02-07 06:19
@staff@mastodon.social Good day all I miss the very good live feed. How can I have it back? Thank you and best regards.
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@Hexfoliation@mastodon.social 2026-02-08 05:44
@staff@mastodon.social may I have my Live Feed restored?
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@Max_Power75@mastodon.social 2026-02-08 14:15
@staff@mastodon.social I miss Live Feeds. That is how I populated my Home Feed by scrolling Live Feeds for users in the other federated timelines that I share interest with.
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@64bithero@mstdn.games 2026-02-08 16:42
@staff@mastodon.social I disagree with this entirely. You need to know what tags to look for to even guess if they exist. Getting to see items that people post in the wild helps people decide who’s worth following and better yet seeing everything and everyone out there on the fediverse. I really hope you backtrack on this and if you don’t really hope you don’t disable it for any other instances that want to keep using it. Really really disappointed…..
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@macacator@mastodon.social 2026-02-08 18:44
@staff@mastodon.social but I liked the sheer mass of everything in one place all at once, that way I didn't have to follow anything in particular. That kinda talk about "we want to curate your feed for you" is the exact fascist techno babble many of us are moving away from. I want to have a feed bukkake on my eyeballs with no chill filter, or screen.
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@laurross@mastodon.social 2026-02-10 18:30
👎Décision totalement autoritaire, que ce soit une option à activer si vous voulez, mais vous n'avez pas nous imposer de ne plus pouvoir suivre ou simplement découvrir ce qui ce passe ailleurs. Je tiens particulièrement à conserver la possibilité de parcourir un fil global et un fil local et apparement nous sommes très nombreux dans ce cas. N'ayant aucune confiance ni dans ma traduction propre, ni dans la traduction via AI, je vous laisse ce soin.
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@PaulaToThePeople@climatejustice.social 2026-02-13 07:26
@staff@mastodon.social Large, unmoderated-signup servers have limited use* to the Fediverse. *are harmful
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@SuperMoosie@mastodon.au 2026-02-13 07:44
@staff@mastodon.social Move to a better instance, that doesn't gatekeep how you use it. https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server/
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@gharbeia@mastodon.social 2026-02-13 13:43
@staff@mastodon.social These views were optional. New users could ignore them if they wanted. I'd like both the local and global views restored for me, if possible. I relied on the serendipity these views availed as a window to the Fediverse, allowing the discovery of new people, interests that I couldn't search for because I probably don't know about; ones that are not necessarily trending. I would have understood a scaling justification, though. #restoreTheWorldStream
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@FrChazzz@mastodon.social 2026-02-16 05:58
@staff@mastodon.social Yeah, so I'm just now learning about this and want to join the chorus of folks lamenting this change. I use both the Federated and Local timelines on a regular basis. Not a fan of this instance taking a Meta-like direction...
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@trzyglow@mastodon.social 2026-02-20 17:04
@staff@mastodon.social at least make it an opt-in feature in the preferences... the live feeds were great... edit: i would like to have them reactivated for my account, if possible
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@Kletskous@mastodon.social 2026-03-07 09:38
@staff@mastodon.social Please restore my Live Feeds! Best would be to bring it back for everyone as an option imho,
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@pndy@mastodon.social 2026-03-23 09:10
@staff@mastodon.social 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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@GarriGarri@mastodon.social 2026-03-30 21:17
@staff@mastodon.social Hey! I noticed the Mastodon streaming access was removed. Would it be possible to get access to it again?
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@rootcompute@mastodon.social 2026-04-04 19:25
@staff@mastodon.social Hello, can you restore my access to the live feeds? Thanks in advance!
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@fern_0@mastodon.social 2026-04-11 21:01
@staff@mastodon.social 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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@PeterSoukup@mastodon.social 2026-04-20 15:02
@staff@mastodon.social 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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@mistakenotmy@mastodon.social 2026-06-27 09:58
@staff@mastodon.social I was using the API endpoints of the live feeds to do some research. While I understand that they are not that useful on the web, it was certainly for API access. If there is a way to have this enabled for my account again let me know please.
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@ProngSprong_nCloven@mastodon.social 2026-07-16 16:23
@staff@mastodon.social Jenkies. So that's why the app was acting up and monsterdon was such a hard time. I thought maybe I had been shadowbanned for shitty personality or sending in too many reports. Turns out we all got shadowbanned together! I didn't get a message as a trusted flagger tho either, so I'm sorry if I contributed to our unjust group punishment, community fellows. I'm trying to study the swamp life here -- can I get an academic exception? I'm concerned about some endagered bot species.