tanteNov 16, 2022

I am maybe too much of a power user but I know nobody who uses Twitter's algorithmic timeline.

The whole "Mastodon is without the evil algorithm" feels very much like a psychological overreaction that somehow merges all problems with Facebook and Instagram and TikTok into one action.

Show threadAnatol Stefanowitsch
@tante No, many users who joined after 2015 took the algorithmic timeline to be the normal way of using Twitter, I was surprised to learn. Many did not actually know there was a chronological timeline.
Nov 16, 2022 at 4:40pmMetatext
Show threadtanteNov 16, 2022
@astefanowitsch that must have sucked.
Show threadAxel GutmannNov 16, 2022
@tante @astefanowitsch It did. Twitter tried multiple times to switch itself back to the "Best Tweets" without notice, so I had several mornings going from "something feels different ... that sucks ... oh, not again" while browsing the timeline.