Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

• EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I like Mastodon but it can’t compete with X. The lack of discoverability is non-starter for many. Its greatest benefits are also its biggest barriers to mainstream appeal.

  Bluesky says it’s decentralized, but at the end of the day it’s an American company.

  They just aren’t the right tools for this particular job.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The lack of discoverability is non-starter for many.

    The Fediverse significantly lacks behind on the Content Discoverability technology.

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  • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Then it sounds more like they want to be the European next Bluesky.

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  • 73ms@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    what in particular do you mean by lack of discoverability?

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      like, i want to see posts from communities that i already subscribed to, but because there’s more than 1000 communities on the fediverse and i’m only subscribed to a small countable subset of them, i inevitably lose out on a lot of content. (The “all” feed sucks unfortunately). So how to solve this?

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      • 73ms@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well, parent poster was talking about Mastodon, you seem to be talking about threadiverse platforms like Lemmy. One thing that applies to both and every single platform that is large enough for that to happen is that you’re always going to lose out on a lot of the content because there is just too much content for one person to look at. It isn’t actually that difficult to subscribe so much that you get past that point in my experience.

        For the Mastodon-type fediverse microblogging platforms there’s some things that can help when trying to sift through the more popular stuff more (and less) similarly to how an algorithmic timeline would do it. Boost bots that track what’s trending and tools like Phanpy that allow you to check out what has been boosted the most in your recent timeline. There’s also starter packs (currently a fedidevs third party feature but will be added to Mastodon in the future too) and Sharkey antennas that let you watch for keywords over all the posts that flow through your instance. When it comes to things that aren’t here yet but are being worked on Fediscovery seems very promising.

        Maybe some of that stuff should exist for Lemmy etc. too or maybe the “all” feed could be improved.

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  • sibachian@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the “lack of discoverability” is the only reason we’re talking about this problem in the first place. algorithms have utterly fucked the world and if no one stops them we’re beyond fucked so the fact that someone thinks it’s bad and is unwilling to try using a platform you need to curate your own content on (like reddit before it went to shit) is just people willingly stepping into the lions mouth.

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