Not sure if I just missed how this is now a thing but it looks like a malfunction, definitely not optimal. I've refreshed the page but, for c/microblogs , the community link to let me know what I'm looking at, is not displaying. I don't know that this is a help issue necessarily. Just wanted to mention it.
If I'm the only person this bugs, guess I'll just block the community, but that seems less than optimal. What if these folks describing their minute by minute minutiae somehow becomes interesting? It could happen (Narrator: It could never happen).
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rimu@piefed.social · 4 pts · 76d
This is an experimental feature, as part of a push to deepen PieFed's integration with Mastodon. It will get better.
/c/microblogs contains all the Mastodon posts that everyone on the instance is following so it's going to be pretty random, like the Federated timeline in Mastodon is. Most likely it will end up hidden by default or something.
Bonus@piefed.social · 1 pts · 76d
Ok, it's just not displaying the community name but I understand that it will get better. Thanks so much for the response! I post from mastodon some so I'm interested in this quite a bit.
Edit:
How does it work? Is it just being sort of randomly gathered? When I tag communities from mastodon, it automatically posts to them, but I don't see that happening with any of these microblog posts.Never mind, I didn't read that second bit correctly at first.rimu@piefed.social · 2 pts · 76d
Yeah, they're not really in a community... /c/microblogs only exists because PieFed was built around every post having a community so technically those posts need to have one. But when those posts were authored the author didn't specify a community so they get assigned one when they land here.
Kierunkowy74@piefed.social · 1 pts · 76d
So, this is effectively a PieFed's m/random
(not to be confused with r/random, available already on PieFed - as I am talking about /kbin (and by extension: MBin) feature)
rimu@piefed.social · 1 pts · 76d
Yes, that's where the idea came from!