TheBooster 🚀Jun 4, 2025
Instagram's #UI on mobile sucks. You can only explore a menu from the bottom, unless you want to go to your main feed. If you want to go to the #ExploreTab, to follow a celebrity, you'll have to go to #YouTube, Search for the celebrity, go to the links button, and Swipe down to go to the Instagram link, Wait for the page to load and then you can follow. Also, Why tf does Instagram allow you to message creator but it says, "This account can't receive your message because requests aren't accepted for everyone,." At that point the, "Message," Button shouldn't even be their
AppleX4Apr 12, 2025
🚨 Bluesky se pone las pilas: reacciones con emojis en los mensajes y nueva pestaña Explore con tendencias, cuentas recomendadas y más. Todo pensado para que migrar desde X sea más fácil. ¿Lo has probado ya? 👀
#Bluesky #RedesSociales #TechNews #Emojis #ExploreTab
Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏Oct 30, 2023

Comparing the Explore Tab at Mastodon.social and Mastodon.cloud, and anecdotally at least I think the two Fediverse instances displays very similar (if not almost identical) set of posts/toots.

I have inadequate data/insight whether to call this good or bad.

It is, though, afaiu, undeniably algorithmic. (...but curated or not? I don't know.)

#fz_thinkingOutLoud #ExploreTab #MetaMastodon

Show threadDick Smiths Fair Go SupportersJul 8, 2023

@Miro_Collas @openwebfriend
We believe one role of the politician in the USA today is also to have people glued to their devices as much as possible, to extract the most value out of the person for free and other reasons.

Fedi instances generally are not engineered to do that, with the exception of #Mastodon, and its "#ExploreTab" and its new focus on Boost and #LikeCounts that botFarms are designed to game.

Show threadDick Smiths Fair Go SupportersFeb 15, 2023

We predicted #MastodonDevs were going to do it years ago, see #PopularityModel to see our intuition in full effect. #intuitivelyCorrectAlmostEverytime #prolific

#botFarms #socialMedia #misInfo #disInfo #exploreTab #exploreTimeline #mastodon #hostileTakeover #diaspora #zhitomirskiy #gased #sanFrancisco #fediverse #fediMeta #moneyPrinterContinues #moneyPrinterGoDrrr

Dick Smiths Fair Go SupportersFeb 15, 2023

Does anyone else think the "Explore" timeline on #Mastodon's implementation goes against what made fediverse so great to begin with?

If not, why?

#popularityModel #exploreTab

Show threadR. L. Dane  Feb 12, 2023

@dsfgs

@james @[email protected] @[email protected]

Yeah, there's a reason why I:
1) never use the "official" app
2) never recommend the "official" app
3) never refer to the "official" app
4) never assent to the idea that there could ever be one app that's "official."

Because it's kinda off. It's kind of a cultural half-breed.

#ExploreTab #mastodonregressions #mastodondevs #turderatti #fame #techlayoffs #dotcons #mastodonbugs #makejavascriptoptional

Show threadDick Smiths Fair Go SupportersFeb 12, 2023

@RL_Dane
The #ExploreTab is indeed one of the most toxic #MastodonRegressions that #MastodonDevs have introduced. Also forced javascript. We can see the bots are pumping the #turderatti with instant "#fame".

Interestingly, ninety percent of people complaining about #techLayoffs at the #dotCons were in that joining-window also.

#mastodonBugs #makeJavascriptOptional @james @[email protected] @[email protected]

Dick Smiths Fair Go SupportersJan 30, 2023

The #EuropeanCommission is at the top of the #ExploreTab on some servers, so it must be popular and an authority on stuff.

Seriously, fediverse went from noone caring what it says about the #ProxyWar six months ago to a few ex-#twitterBots boosting it.

Show threadDick Smiths Fair Go SupportersJan 6, 2023

@ParadeGrotesque
We were trying to work out what this has to do with #Mastodon. Then we realised the service is likely being inundated by a #botFarm, and Mastodon encourages #botFarms now with the #ExploreTab.

:p

We think someone is trying to offer a 'friendly' service they should probably be on an I2P instance anyway?