Follow a few interesting hashtags and you have your recommendation algorithm, but one you’re in control of.
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tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days agoTry using Mastodon and Bluesky at the same time. Bluesky is a twitter clone and perfect replacement. Mastodon is an excellent micro-blogging platform, but has none of the features people actually liked about twitter. People love recommendation algorithms and quote tweet dunking. That’s the core of what it’s all about. Mastodon is glorified RSS, which is great if you miss those days.
madjo@feddit.nl 3 days ago
Scrollone@feddit.it 3 days ago
Have you seen the average person recently? They like to be spoon-fed content in a passive way. Look at Instagram Reels or TikTok.
Mastodon is fine for geeks like us, but the average Joe would find it dead and boring. Bluesky managed to fill that hole left by Twitter.
madjo@feddit.nl 3 days ago
In that case, I wish the “average person” a lot of fun on corporate internet. Meanwhile we’ll have more fun on the federated indie internet.
clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
fuck people liking shit … and fuck people going back to american corporate tech… yes, I’m mad like that.
heavyboots@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Honestly I have used Blue Sky and Mastodon and Mastodon feels a lot more elegant to me, personally.
Kache@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Perhaps open federated systems should have recommendation algos too, just optional and open
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
It would be cool to download different algorithms people created to see how it feeds
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Doesn’t PeerTube already do this? Maybe I am mistaken.
In any case there’s nothing inherently preventing this, just because a platform gets some of its data from other servers instead of its own users, it doesn’t mean it can’t use that data to run a recommendation algorithm.
I don’t want it though. I prefer choosing for myself what sources I want to get information from instead of getting any of it recommended by the platform operator.