Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉I love Mastodon and I research search engines, so when we set up a mastodon instance at the University of Twente, we planned to research federated search, who-to-follow recommendations, and trending topics. Students worked on this in one of our courses:
When engaging with the community, I quickly learnt that many tooters actively oppose search, recommendation and most other "algorithmic" tools. As a researcher in Information Retrieval I was kind of shocked: How could someone NOT like search??
sergio_101 has moved!@djoerd i think it would be really cool to have a "personal" algorithm.. that you could run in the cloud.. that would scour your own profile and the rest of the fediverse and give inferences and recommendations..