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That’s why I loved TweetBot. No algorithm, just a chronological list of everything everyone I followed posted/retweeted. And now I use Mastodon, because I can
by MBCook 2y ago
That’s why I loved TweetBot. No algorithm, just a chronological list of everything everyone I followed posted/retweeted.
And now I use Mastodon, because I can use Ivory, the Mastodon client by TapBits (the maker of TweetBot).
Of course you don’t have to use that app because Mastodon doesn’t have any algorithm. It’s just chronological. It’s great. There’s nothing stopping someone from making a client that has an algorithm. But the service isn’t trying to hide stuff from you and promote nonsense that someone paid for.
- flohofwoe 2y agoAlso the "Following" tab is still there in the regular twitter client which gives you the "raw" timeline of just tweets from people you follow (except below conversation threads where twitter still insists to append random tweets at the end). Then the next step to a sane timeline is to hide retweets for selected people who tend to retweet a lot of noise ;) The article mostly seems to be about "don't interact with idiots on the internet" though (well, no shit!), not about the broken recommendation algorithm.
- MBCook 2y agoThe company is TapBots. I swear I fixed that typo, but I guess not. And I don’t want to misname them.