To add: Mastodon's chronological timeline also does actually make specific curation choices, and it does not actually show you all posts from an account you follow.

Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fediversereport@mastodon.social@mastodon.social⁩ to ⁨connected-places@activitypub.space⁩

https://activitypub.space/topic/db6263c6-f9f1-4e28-8285-d2dc1f86f57f/to-add-mastodon-s-chronological-timeline-also-does-actually-make-specific-curation-choices-and-it-does-not-actually-show-you-all-posts-from-an-account-you-follow.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hfalcke/117455063326697336

Suppose you follow Alice. You only see replies Alice makes if you also follow the account she replies to, replies by Alice to accounts you don't follow don't show up in your Home timeline.

I think this is fine! But chronological feeds are not neutral, they make specific and meaningful curation choices about the content you see

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contrasocial@mastodon.social@mastodon.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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The semi-visibility of content and the unintuitive effect of account/server relationships is honestly one of the weakest aspects of Mastodon that really lends itself to the perception of new people that no one uses the platform.
It would be much better to be given a choice of algorithms (or no algorithm). The main problem with algos is when they are opaque and controlled entirely by a corporation with no user choice, but that's not the only way they can be used.
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