If your main timeline on Mastodon is getting too full and too busy to keep up with, you might want to consider using the "Lists" feature. This lets you move accounts you follow over to separate mini-timelines and off your main timeline.
There's a guide to using Lists and lots of questions answered at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodon
People often use Lists to create themed mini-timelines, for example you might follow sport-related accounts on a sports list.
@FediTips Wait, what?!
I've always ignored the lists feature because I didn't initially understand it and just went on without it, but consider my masto game changed!
@FediTips What I don't get is that hashtags do make way much more sense to be organised in lists, or maybe mixed - but with hashtags clustered in a list, you could group together # degoogled and # unplugtrump together with # FOSS - but keep #bicycling together with # triatlon and # running.
Is that somehow doable?
Hashtags on lists would be fantastic, it's one of the most requested features on Mastodon. The developers definitely know there's demand for it, but I don't know when this might happen.
Nearest workaround is using the "advanced web mode" which lets you create dedicated columns for following hashtags with up to four tags in each column. More info at https://fedi.tips/how-to-activate-mastodons-tweetdeck-style-advanced-web-interface
@FediTips It's one of my favorite features, so I don't miss posts from people I care about who don't post very often.
There's also another feature for that scenario where you can ask for extra notifications when specific accounts post: https://fedi.tips/how-to-be-notified-when-someone-posts-on-mastodon/
@FediTips Yes, there are a few people that I use that for as well, but for most accounts the lists are perfect.
