@Sarahw @VickiKyriakakis Nope. I'm supportive of the aspirations of Mastodon. The reality is, it isn't as good in some fundamental ways. There is absolutely nothing wrong with having an algorithmic timeline that attempts to provide you the information relevant to your current interests. This could be done in parallel with a linear timeline.

Furthermore, the presentation of threaded messages is strictly terrible. Instead of doing the sane thing which is to group them, it posts them reversed

@Sarahw @VickiKyriakakis this 'here you're the algorithm' sounds like the same nonsense you hear in other corners of tech. Leveraging technology to our advantage, to improve our productivity is the name of the game. Who has time for grooming their timeline? I don't. I also don't compile my own kernels anymore.

Mastodon has the advantage of not being profit driven, so it could be even better at presenting users the news/messages they want when they want it and still offer the other style.

@Sarahw Well let's start with the kernel.

Back in the day... early adopters of Linux had to spend time compiling their Linux kernel to get things just right. It was a point of pride and one of the things we loved about Linux. Do it yourself. Late 90s into the early 2000s.

The control Microsoft exerted over the tech industry was immense and it made everything a pain.

Twitter and Facebook are now turn of the century Microsoft.