So someone on tiktok was complaining that on mastodon there's no way to see "popular" posts, and I pointed out that it's just a chronological feed rather than a curation algorithm and they said they don't like it because they "have to sift through a bunch of boring posts to find gems."

I've always thought that lots of people SAY they don't like curation/recommendation and would rather just see everything, but they don't actually mean that. 🤷‍♀️

@cfiesler I think it's more that they can't contemplate the entirety of what either end of that spectrum means, both in terms of content consumption and in the effects of those methods of consumption.