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Hard disagree. Following anything other than people whose content you actually want to see breaks the model completely.
by singpolyma3 3y ago
Hard disagree. Following anything other than people whose content you actually want to see breaks the model completely.
- CharlieDigital 3y agoThis is kind of a narrow view isn't it? Do you follow people on Reddit or do you follow communities? I make no claims of whether one model is superior to another; only an observation that on Mastodon, one model will yield better results than the other if what you seek is engagement. Mastodon -- at least for now -- is topic-oriented rather than creator-oriented.
- r0uv3n 3y agoFor me the point is that either I curate aggressively by only following people I trust will post interesting stuff or I follow topics on a platform with a solid recommendation algorithm (this doesn't even need to be adapted to my personal usage patterns, it could just be intelligent interaction based sorting of the posts landing in my feed). E.g. I would never use the /new feed across all my subreddits for example, simply because it would show me way too much irrelevant / low quality content. The same is true to some extent when following hashtags on Mastodon.
- pixelle3d 3y agoI find mastodon to EASILY be the best format for microblogging. I have 100% total control over the content on my feed. No nonsense algorithms. I can follow any hashtags or people as I see fit. It’s truly an amazing platform. Twitter is garbage.
- singpolyma3 3y agoIf you follow topics like this you're inviting all kinds of moderation problems, etc, by seeing content from people you don't know. Microblogging (well, all blogging) was perfectly designed not to have these issues by you seeing only feeds you subscribe to.