Post APR9xVp2ucDP2TrHns by dotproto@toot.cafe
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 (DIR) Post #APR9xUsuOli88AerBY by dotproto@toot.cafe
       2022-11-09T07:36:30Z
       
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       I like how Mastodon instances have their own flavors and interests. I wish there was a way to have a combined feed of several instance timelines in order to see, experience, and engage with people on those instances (without having to find and follow a set of people in each instance)
       
 (DIR) Post #APR9xVKYjxpRVvawHg by dotproto@toot.cafe
       2022-11-09T18:44:21Z
       
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       Looks like there may be an imperfect solution that a Mastodon client could on.I decided to Google to see if maybe I just missed a feature in the webapp or if there were known workarounds. In the process, I found this feature request: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/6942From comments on that issue I found out that instances have public feeds. For example, https://toot.cafe/public. As you might expect, this also means that there are APIs you can hit to get this data. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/client/public/#timelines
       
 (DIR) Post #APR9xVp2ucDP2TrHns by dotproto@toot.cafe
       2022-11-09T18:50:35Z
       
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       If I do tackle a Mastodon client, I think I'd explore a "woven timeline" feature to combine a set of public feeds into a single timeline viewSpitballing, but a more robust version of this feature could lean on creating an account on secondary instance, redirecting[1] the secondary account your main one, and then using the API to fetch the local timeline from the secondary instance. Maybe this is even something that could be automated?[1]:  https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#migration
       
 (DIR) Post #APR9xWIT9DkcVjcmfI by ondra@social.unextro.net
       2022-11-09T19:33:55Z
       
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       @dotproto https://mastovue.glitch.me/ FYI. Public timelines are accessible without account, it seems.
       
 (DIR) Post #APRNlnr9R332qz9bpA by dotproto@toot.cafe
       2022-11-09T22:08:39Z
       
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       @ondra yep, but I assume instance admins can disable the public feed or there may be other limitations that having a real local account would help with