Mastodawn

Dr. Casey Fiesler Nov 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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SlyFerret

@cfiesler I wonder if it would be possible to implement a filter feature that lets you follow hashtags but filter out posts with less than a certain number of boosts or likes. I'd think that would be pretty easy to implement, assuming it's not already possible and I just don't know it.