Post #505937

2026-02-17 14:13 UTC

How do you keep up with your Mastodon timeline? Some days I just don’t have the time or energy to scroll through everything, and I end up missing plenty of popular toots or boosts. What kind of tools or clients do you use to address this? (For me the general &quot;trending&quot; feature does not work, because I&#39;m only interested in my own timeline, not in trends within my instance.)

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@z428eu@quietmoon.org 2026-02-17 14:17

@mechko@chaos.social Sometimes I use phanpy in the browser, this comes with a feature aptly named "catch up", providing a very condensed insight into posters, posts, replies and the like. Greatly recommended: phanpy.app/ Otherwise I'm (Friendica) mostly trying to keep accounts, people, topics sorted into channels so to be sure not to miss the "important" ones while knowing which one I might catch up on later, in the weekend or so.

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@hko@floss.social 2026-02-17 14:35

@mechko@chaos.social In the past, I've tried to "keep up" with microblogging feeds. Now I just treat them as broadcasts that I sometimes "tune into", read the last tens of messages, and maybe follow some rabbitholes in them. But I don't try to read the full timeline. Orthogonally, I'm experimenting with enabling notifications for some (low volume) accounts that I follow, to reliably see *all* of their posts (in my notification timeline).

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@janl@narrativ.es 2026-02-17 14:54

@mechko@chaos.social disable boosts always. Filter replies when catching up.

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