It's interesting how different our experiences are. > On Twitter/X, the reality is that people get the kind of posts they tend to interact with. The "For You"

It's interesting how different our experiences are. > On Twitter/X, the reality is that people get the kind of posts they tend to interact with. The "For You" page can be curated, however I deleted my Twitter account late last year and created a new one that only follows a handful of local bars to keep track of their opening hours/upcoming events. I'm in Japan, all the bars only post in Japanese, my computer is set to Japanese. But when I check out the For You tab, after about 3 screenfuls of local stuff, it fades to U.S. brain-rot all in English and I stop scrolling and close the tab. > But have you seen Facebook's feed lately? I'm mostly on Facebook for family but also am I a handful of groups - retro tech groups, some car Youtuber groups. I see no politics or anything like that on Facebook so the feed curation there seems to work. There are a lot of really bad ads and just tons and tons of lowest-common-denominator "viral videos" like those 5 minute crafts and "look at this weird kid in china" type things so it's still not a pleasant experience. > BTW, Mastodon is nice. But even without the algorithmic feed, people tend to gravitate toward drama and shallow subjects, such as politics and religion Aside from people expressing exasperation about whatever the latest political tragedy is, and a lot of "trans rights" boosts, I see proportionately very little drama, politics and religion on Mastodon. Without the algorithm to reward virality from emotional posts like that, they just don't seem to get the reach they did on Twitter. Most of my Mastodon feed is technical stuff like people's pet projects, which always got buried and never surfaced properly on Twitter since it didn't trigger the algorithmic vitality.