Tucker TeagueIf you enjoy someone's post on #Mastodon go ahead and click the star. If someone tells you that's meaningless because there's no #algorithm, ignore them. Sure, boost the post too if you want others to also see the post, but don't think telling someone you like what they posted is somehow unimportant. In real life I don't tell someone, "good job," or "well said," or "I love that," for the sake of some algorithm, I do it because I'm human and they are too. It's fundamental to being truly social.
Wijsgeer@tuckerteague it also suggest that the only reason I "liked" posts on Twitter was because of the algorithm. That's not true, it is a form of communication towards the poster. Human interaction. And I can for the life of me not see why this part of it wouldn't be the same here.
Lilian Edwards@wijsgerig it never even OCCURRED to me to like posts on Twitter to boost the algorithm ( as opposed to please the poster) & I still find it utterly bizarre that this was apparently what ROW was doing. Weirdos.
@lilianedwards likewise. It wasn't called "liking" for nothing. It was a little bit of connection to the poster.
@[email protected] did it become an algo input on Twitter anyway? It wasn't at start ( when I started!) Pretty sure..
Sebastian Marsching@lilianedwards I think it started when they added the “Home” mode in addition to the “Latest Tweets” mode. I never used the “Home” mode (because I found it very strange to let Twitter’s algorithm decide what I should and shouldn’t see), but apparently a lot of people used it and are still using it. It seems like many people do not even know about the “Latest Tweets” mode.
Angry Centrist@SMarsching @lilianedwards For a while it felt like Twitter was randomly resetting back to the "home" thing. I'd see NOTHING from anyone I was following and all sorts of other random junk and then realize it had gone to the algorithm-driven "Home." I think it increases "stickiness" for a lot of users because it's all hot-topic crack for the addicts.
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Jón Grétar@lilianedwards @SMarsching yeah I never used the Home mode. And I was quite oblivious to this whole algorithm thing. I liked things because I liked them.