In many ways, Mastodon feels like rewinding the clock on social media back to the early days of Twitter and Facebook. On the consume side, that means that your home feed has no algorithm (this can be disorienting at first).

Practically, it means that you see only what you want to see and only see it linearly. You never wonder “why am I seeing this and how do I make it go away?”. Content can only enter your home feed via your followed tags or handles and the feed is linear like the early days of social media.

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My timeline has always been this way. Third party clients man. They were so good.

Algorithmic timelines are toxic.

[–] mo_lave@reddthat.com 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hot take: Algorithmic timelines are cool, provided we can (1) opt out from the default algorithm and (2) plug in our own algorithms

[–] alansuspect@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

That would be awesome if people could just make their own algorithms, like when people say 'just start your own instance'. Don't like the way algorithm A does things? Try B or C, or make your own! I could see some weird filtering options appearing...

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