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Do you people know that "# Explore" section on the right of Mastodon already lists posts which are gaining traction? It also lists news which are trending. It
by Ciantic 4y ago
Do you people know that "# Explore" section on the right of Mastodon already lists posts which are gaining traction? It also lists news which are trending.
It says:
"These posts from this and other servers in the decentralized network are gaining traction on this server right now."
I don't know what the logic is, but on big servers it's listing a lot of content.
- dewey 4y agoThat's very different from the Twitter timeline though, which shows you "good" content from people you already follow that happened since the last time you used Twitter. So if you refresh a bunch of times you'll always see more interesting tweets / likes / comments.
- Ciantic 4y agoYes you are right, but IMO it's algorithmic curation already, like the parent said. It's just not from your timeline but from whole fediverse / server you are on. It's probably not that difficult to add one based on your feed if there is one globalized already.
- pferde 4y agoTo me, the main difference to Twitter seems to be that you have to explicitly go to the "Explore" section to look for trending content, leaving your "default" home timeline chronological. So if you want to check out what's the current buzz, you can, but you won't unknowingly be missing posts from those you follow (which seems to be the common complaint on Twitter).
- charcircuit 4y agoI don't think those results are personalized which makes them worthless compared to twitter's suggestions.