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Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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His grand vision remains to leave Mastodon users in control of the social network, making their own decisions about what content is allowed or what appears in their timelines.

I don't use Mastadon cause I don't care for micro-blogging, but nevertheless, I like this.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Bluesky has the USP of people being able to choose from multiple algorithms or even use multiple ones at the same time; and that certainly has resonated with a lot of people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

That sounds pretty neat. Are all the algos developed by Bluesky (i.e., corporate/billionaire/VC-driven) though?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

no, but the various algorithms that control and construct these "user customized feeds" is precisely the part of bluesky that is architecturely a bottleneck, and it isn't a bug, the ceo of bluesky has gone on record that bluesky hasn't ruled out using this intentional centralization point to force ads on the system

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Good to know, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

No, anyone is able to create a "feed"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 20 hours ago

Cool, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

That's actually a fair point. I've seen it in the UI but I'm not sure exactly how it works, but it seems like there's communities to moderate and curate and you can simply enable them to moderate your feed, if I'm understanding it right. If so, it sounds like a really good way to compartmentalize that stuff to allow users to sort it themselves.