Comment on Fediverse now well past 12 Million total daily users

• static_motion@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You can, but the feeds that are supposed to help you find people to follow in the first place are important, and Mastodon’s are awful.

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  • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But why should do you need some algorithm to find some people to follow? Unless you talk about a search algorithm?

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    • StoicLime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bluesky does it the best. It supports community made custom algorithms, so I use a Discover feed to find people I like.

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    • static_motion@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, I’m talking about the hypothetical algorithm that fills a page with things you might be interested in. Twitter has it (even though it’s not necessarily good), even Reddit these days has some of that, it’s a feature in most social media websites and sometimes quite a useful one, and Mastodon just lacks it altogether.

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      • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I know how those algorithms work. And they suck because they quickly spoon-feed you bullshit if you’re not careful enough.

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