Dr. Casey FieslerNov 24, 2022

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. 🤷‍♀️

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@cfiesler Of course, an algorithmic feed is preferred. The vast majority of users would absolutely prefer such a thing, even if they wouldn't tell you that. That's not news. That's just people being lazy and having the attention span of insects.

The amount of people who would actually prefer a chronological feed is single digit percentages. That is not even in question.

Nov 24, 2022 at 5:00amWeb