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Is it wrong for people to clog up the federated timeline with uninteresting posts?
@evan I think it's worth considering both intent and quantity here.
If a poster genuinely thinks they are being interesting then they should post. If they are intentionally broadcasting uninteresting posts then I think they should think about why they are doing that.
And as others have said, if you're producing enough quantity to actually clog the timeline and make it unusable for others, then that's a problem no matter how interesting you are.
@skyfaller @evan Agreed re: intent. I doubt there are many people posting things they find uninteresting themselves, though certainly not everyone will find everything interesting
Though overall I'm not too concerned about the federated timeline being curated; it's a firehose anyway
Re: quantity, I wish Mastodon upstream would pull in exclusive lists from the Hometown fork: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki/Exclusive-lists
That's more for your home timeline but I think it'd help deal with information overload
@skyfaller I agree. Especially automated posts like weather updates or server monitoring should probably be flagged for exclusion from public timelines.