As previously announced, live feeds are now disabled on our servers by default.

[davemasondotme@mastodon.social]

@staff

Well damn. I found out about this the hard way. 🙁

https://mastodon.social/@DaveMasonDotMe/116015411664635183

[davemasondotme@mastodon.social]

@staff
For what it's worth, I browsed the Local/Federated timelines regularly. (I primarily use a desktop browser with the Advanced Web Interface enabled and in Slow mode.)

Yeah, there was a lot of 'junk' in there. But there was a lot of good too. (If we'd had the ability to mute all automated/bot accounts, it would have been an even better experience...for me, anyway.)

https://mastodon.social/@DaveMasonDotMe/115709594590493795

[gnaddrig@mastodon.social]

@staff
Great, that's my main way of using Mastodon switched off. I don't like the trending feed because that just amplifies the same accounts everybody knows already.

Now, how would I even find stuff that is not currently trending? Serendipity is dead around here, I guess. A pity.

[mrskycar@mastodon.social]

@staff There has to be a better way to filter for bots and still have a live feed towards breaking chatter that is not dependent on manual refreshes.

[davesmeg@mastodon.social]

@DaveMasonDotMe @staff
So did I.
I like to scroll the world feed a while. Occasionally I'll find something new there.

I guess it's time to migrate again.

[davesmeg@mastodon.social]

@staff
Anybody know of another server to migrate to where the live feed is still active and won't be removed that I could migrate to?

[westsibe@mastodon.social]

@staff , please enable Local Timeline at @westsibe (Local Timeline is empty now 😣)

[sam@break3.social]

@staff@mastodon.social This seems really strange especially as there's not really many other solutions to finding lots of content on the fediverse and picking out 'useful' / wanted content.

Well I don't use mastodon.social or mastodon.online directly the feed is helpful as I use an alt to mute accounts I really don't want to see and then I pick out accounts and content I do want to see and push them to my instance.

Is there anything that could be used to do this instead of one of the biggest instances in the Fediverse? How does a small instance actually get more content on it if not by finding the majority of it on instances like yours?

[morb@mastodon.social]

@staff howdy! is this something I can opt-in or opt-out of through settings? I'd like to be able to view the firehose.

[staff@mastodon.social]

@sam We can grant access to the live feeds for anyone who wants it.

https://www.fediscovery.org/ is particularly intended to help ensure small instances will be able to find content without having to bear the load of consuming a full relay with larger servers.

[sibshops@mastodon.online]

@staff I wonder if there is another reason too. Like to stop AI scrapers.

[mcslibinas@mastodon.social]

@staff @untilted live feeds was much cleaner than home tab. At least there was no porn in live feeds.

[mxjaygrant@triangletoot.party]

@staff Maybe if y'all actually moderated your server instead of failing to do your jobs you wouldn't have to turn off features that people use and enjoy

Have you tried that instead?

[jimhaku@mastodon.social]

@staff This is a unique feature of the service I quite enjoy.

[jackmexa4@mastodon.social]

@staff I would like to still see the Local live feed.

I also agree with others in that it would be nice to have the option to enable it through settings.

[rauldux@mastodon.social]

@staff I would like to see the Local and Federated Timeline enabled please.

[joergba@mastodon.social]

@staff Ich habe den Live Feed benutzt um Infos zu bekommen für Themen, Menschen die/denen ich nicht folge. Wie finde ich jetzt interessantes was ich noch nicht kannte?

[khorticija@mastodon.social]

@staff I was using the federated timeline to browse all the posts in my mother tongue and it helped to see what people in my country were writing, regardless where they registered their account. Sad that this was turned off.

[cyberstation@mastodon.social]

@staff Hey, can you turn the life feed back on for me? I would like to get the most recent data to do some research on that, but the websocket now only gives me delete messages :(

[fusion@mastodon.social]

@staff Censorship begins when someone decides what I want to see and what I don't.