Post by @shom

I have been running my own GoToSocial instance for a couple years and I totally forgot the joy of the Local Timeline. I was on Fosstodon in the early days when you got to know people via the local timeline and then it got too big and slowly that sense of community fades.
This feels like one of those early days of meeting new and interesting friends. Hi Local Timeline folks! I hope for many little littleFedis.

@shom there's also a plan to improve the bubble timeline, to help people to discover more people without leaving their own instance

@stefano I haven't understood Bubble yet, that's interesting to hear. Did I miss reading about it in one of your posts?

@shom it's similar to the Akkoma bubble concept. In short, the admin can set some "bubble" instances and their posts will be shown in the Bubble timeline. A sort of "close" instances list.

@stefano @shom

Oh that sounds amazing, having regional or related instances there sounds nice, like having an expanded Local feed with close neighbors included

@eliastorres @shom this is the admin/bubble instances pages of this instance

@stefano @shom

Nice, does it make sense to consider adding individual profiles or specific parts of a remote instance?

Like having in the bubble:

• Whole instances https://example.net/
• Specific accounts like https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez
• Remote tags, like https://mastodon.social/tags/CostaRica

@eliastorres @shom yes, exactly, this is what we're thinking about - how to consider the bubble instance, the granularity and scope