In many ways, Mastodon feels like rewinding the clock on social media back to the early days of Twitter and Facebook. On the consume side, that means that your home feed has no algorithm (this can be disorienting at first).

Practically, it means that you see only what you want to see and only see it linearly. You never wonder “why am I seeing this and how do I make it go away?”. Content can only enter your home feed via your followed tags or handles and the feed is linear like the early days of social media.

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[–] [email protected] 141 points 1 year ago (29 children)

Mastodon is cool, and I'd use it more if I could get used to the format. The Lemmy/Reddit forum style is my preference.

[–] notatoad 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mastodon is a good reminder of why algorithmic feeds exist

The option for a chronological feed is nice, but without an algorithm filling in the gaps it’s really hard to get started on there

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Meh, I'm sick of all the algorithmic crap. The internet used to be better when people needed a couple brain cells to use them.

[–] notatoad 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"content recommendation is only for stupid people" is a brand new form of gatekeeping that i haven't heard before!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What I'm actually saying is, that user experience is obviously harder without the algorithms, but algorithms (ML ones) are what brought the internet to this state. So I'd rather live without them wherever that's viable.

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