Not your original parent, but my take. > if you have a hand on the control of the relatively centralized recommendation algorithm? There's nothing centralized

Not your original parent, but my take. > if you have a hand on the control of the relatively centralized recommendation algorithm? There's nothing centralized about it. Anyone can run an algorithm. If you don't like that algorithm, drop that feed, and find a new one. Basically, a big difference between BlueSky and Mastodon is that in BlueSky, almost everything is independent parts you can layer together however you like. Mastodon is based around instances, and so ties a lot of these sorts of choices together for everyone on that instance. On BlueSky, "my instance", that is, where my data is hosted, is separate from the posts that I see, because I can choose to follow whatever feeds I like. My instance is also separate from my personal moderation preferences, which I choose independent of my instance.