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Yes, browsing and discovery is strongly influenced by what instance you choose. To understand what parts of the experience are affected, consider the extreme ca
by aendruk 4y ago
Yes, browsing and discovery is strongly influenced by what instance you choose. To understand what parts of the experience are affected, consider the extreme case of a single-user instance.
- rsynnott 4y agoEh, I'm not sure about that, really. If you're already on Twitter, you can follow the people who've migrated over with movetodon or similar, and discover people that way. How often do you browse the Twitter global timeline, after all? (Is that even possible anymore?) On Twitter, and on Mastodon, you largely discover people based on what the people you follow do.
- aendruk 4y ago> How often do you browse the Twitter global timeline, after all? This is the wrong question to ask. Last I used Twitter it bombarded me with unsolicited, unrelated content to an inescapable degree. On Mastodon, which so enthusiastically compensates for Twitter’s aggression that no new content is surfaced without an explicit request or first-degree vouch, I take a peek at instances' local timelines almost daily. Beyond the timeline, consider the behavior of hashtags. On a single-user instance hashtags are useless for discovery.