I guess you're looking at the global feed? I haven't used that since my first few days. I'd start following people and using the Home feed. Then you're not getting the everything-firehose.

[–] static_motion@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Probably? Admittedly I've only used it on Tusky, the Android app, and not much on desktop. It has a single feed which it calls "Local", which I assume is activity from the same instance I'm on. I'll give that a try on desktop.