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 For me the choice is not between curation/recommendation and the unfiltered firehose. It’s between curation/recommendation by mass appeal and curation/recommendation by THE PEOPLE I FOLLOW.
If I have 200 interesting people highlighting the best posts they see—and they, in turn, have a robust network doing the same—that’s the ideal.
It takes time for any user to build that experience, and at first the landscape can seem arid. The challenge is to help them.
Dr. Casey Fiesler
James Gleick
Tagomago