This is also how Mastodon works but there is no algorithm. You can follow other people but then you see everything they post and, for me, much of it isn't inter

This is also how Mastodon works but there is no algorithm. You can follow other people but then you see everything they post and, for me, much of it isn't interesting to me, so I'm only following a couple of people. Instead I follow hashtags. Twitter lets you search for hashtags but doesn't let you follow them, allowing them to show up in your feed. Hashtags ensure I'm only seeing posts that are related to my interests. So Mastodon gives you similar benefits to TikTok's algorithm but gives you full control of it. Eventually, TikTok will be seeking to make even more money and will change the algorithm to benefit itself more than the user. Any social media run by shareholders seeking profit will eventually enshitify this way, as we've already seen with almost all other shareholder controlled businesses.