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• A Admin @admin local 2026-07-19

  Per-user feeds (SP1 / SP2 shipped, SP3 next)

  Textcaster is becoming a feed reader — with a social layer

  Until now Textcaster had one timeline: the instance firehose. We're rolling out per-user feeds in three parts — the first two are live right now.

  ✅ Shipped: the subscription engine (SP1)

  Every registered user can self-serve their own subscriptions. Feeds carry a type:

  • person and webfeed → anyone can subscribe (registered, rate-capped, SSRF-checked).
  • instance → admin-only. These are the federated peers (the Connected instances), shown to everyone.

  Under the hood: a capped POST /me/subscriptions, follow/unfollow with orphan cleanup, OPML import and export, and an admin-configurable subscription cap.

  ✅ Shipped: the four-tab home timeline (SP2)

  Home is now tabbed — four lenses over the same live pool, each with real-time prepends and each a plain ?tab= link (no-JS friendly):

  Tab	Shows
  Local	posts written on this instance
  Federated	all peer/instance content across the network
  Personal	your river — only the people & web feeds you subscribe to
  Public	the wide-open public firehose

  Signed in, you land on Personal by default. Guests land on Public. Your profile at /u/<you> is where "just me" lives — it isn't a tab.