Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Hot take: developing an open source For You algorithm for mastodon that shows you posts based on your likes inbetween every other chronological post would be great (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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If we had an open source algorithm for Mastodon/Pixelfed that learned based on the words in the post and image/video we could have a Following + For You feed that showed you all the posts from people you follow and you could choose to see, say, 1 recommended For You post after every 3 posts from your Following feed. With the option to disable For You posts completely or tweak how often you see these.

Discovering new people to follow on mastodon/pixelfed isn’t great (hashtags are rarely used and make posts look ugly) so I still occasionally use twitter because I often discover new indie animators/gamedevs showing off their project making it really nice to browse the For You feed.

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[–] new_guy 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There are effective ways to be discovered on Mastodon: by being boosted by others and by using hashtags.

If a user wants to be discovered they should be using hashtags. If they're not prioritizing discovery then they shouldn't. And the "consumer" (for lack of a better word) can follow those hashtags, so they appear automatically on their home timeline.

If a user wants to make their followers to know about a person then they should boost their content. That's how relationship works on real life: Your friend sees something cool and snows it to you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I know how reposts work. I know how hashtags work. They’re not great way for discovery especially for discovering smaller accounts. I constantly get recommended tiny accounts posting their gamedev or indie anime work through the algorithm. We can have chronological and algorithm on one feed so its the best of both worlds

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