Research professor in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah. Co-director of the Flux Research Group: https://www.flux.utah.edu. I build research infrastructure: https://cloudlab.us, https://powderwireless.net, https://emulab.net .
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@mo sure! we'd want to be a bit careful about not blindly pulling all lists since that could make the whole thing take a long time if someone has a lot of them (and not necessarily helpful if they don't have them exclude as you do) but I'm sure we can figure something reasonable out
@mo I think that would be fairly complicated, I think I'd have to crawl the home timeline, all list timelines, and deduplicate stuff that appears in more than one :)
@mo It hits the `timelines/home` API, which I *think* is the same one used for home timeline in the web interface and most other clients. So I *think* it's excluding your lists.
I should probably add a very simple timeline view to make this easier to tell
What would happen to your timeline if mastodon.social went away?
(Reposting my tool that helps you figure this out.)
mastodon.social is the biggest server on the #fediverse , with over 21% of accounts, and an even higher percentage of #Mastodon accounts.
But what does that mean to you, personally? Let's say it went away tomorrow - (assuming you aren't on it yourself), how much of your timeline would vanish?
In my case, it turns out - not a lot, actually! The biggest sources of posts that I see are (1) a very small instance that doesn't even federate with much of the Fediverse, but many of my friends are there, (2) my own instance, (3) a large tech-focused instance that is still much smaller than mastodon.social. The big guy is only 5% of the post I've seen recently.
But this might be different for you!
Find out for yourself at https://moderation-explorer.online/ . Use 'advanced mode' to see this analysis, since you need to log into see your actual feed.
You might even decide to try moving to an instance that you're more connected to?
(It's explained more on the site, but all the work happens in your browser, I don't see your identity, auth tokens, posts that get loaded, none of it.)
Replying to @stefan@stefanbohacek.online
@stefan haha, wow, my first website would be like 29 years old, crazy how much closer it is to the existence of the first one than today!
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