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I had been using Masotodon as my main social media before, but gladly find myself on Lemmy a whole lot more. Masotodon is certainly not my type of social media, the Twitter format and lack of algorithm kills it for me. Lemmy fills that Reddit gap, and Sync makes it feel like I'm on Reddit again. Though the website has a long ways to go. Lemmy still has a lot of features to go and things to figure out to be a Reddit killer, but I feel confident we've hit a healthy size and are relatively stable right now.
Biggest thing I think that needs to get worked on though is to give smaller communities better visibility. You almost never see them because they get buried by the popular communties.
I'm not sure how Reddit did it, but they'd show smaller communities to show up on Hot feed pretty often to give them more exposure. We need a form of that.
Lack of algorithm? Sign me up!!!!
Its not as good as it sounds. There should be some kind of sorting. I follow #food but I get low-quality content of any random user taking a picture of their refrigerator at the top of my feed just because they posted 1s ago.
Ah, I see. I've never used those platforms, but I always thought that I could just see a newsfeed with posts of people I follow.
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.
But why should do you need some algorithm to find some people to follow? Unless you talk about a search algorithm?
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.
I know how those algorithms work. And they suck because they quickly spoon-feed you bullshit if you're not careful enough.
Bluesky does it the best. It supports community made custom algorithms, so I use a Discover feed to find people I like.
Do you follow many people? I used to have that issue when I first signed up and was just looking at my entire fedirated feed. Since paring it down to local or follows only, it's a lot nicer while retaining some of that cozy vibe that I like.