Brosephine WiresI love Mastodon because it doesn’t hide my posts from those that choose to follow me— nor does it promote them. It’s fair in a way that Twitter and the others just aren’t. The feedback feels honest and genuine. Mastodon is REAL. So it’s pretty sad to see accounts still playing follow-unfollow ratio games over here. One might even call it “pathetic” or.. “low quality”
Georgia the Explorer@JoParkerBear yep
ACAB for Cutie
Bonkers@JoParkerBear just like livejournal.com was a living place, until a Russian oligarch bought it.
The way we interact here reminds me of that a lot.
ᴚ uɐᗡ@JoParkerBear I don't disagree just noting that the most recent time (today) I raised an eyebrow at an account's odd sudden-follow-accumulation behavior I later realized that individual was just migrating.
so, sometimes weird looking behavior is just weird looking and maybe not a huge red flag
@dannotdaniel no… I’m talking about very typical, confirmed behavior that has nothing to do with migration.
@JoParkerBear I gotcha. Yeah I was just super suspicious, put the account on alerts just to see what was up..
This person is now causing some drama on here so I guess my red flags weren't completely unwarranted 😅
Benefit of the doubt and all that..
Scenario@JoParkerBear Mastodon is definitely quality over quantity.
Dr Alice Violett@JoParkerBear glad it's not just me who's noticed that 😄
BЯIΛП 𝔸𝕀𝕋𝔸@JoParkerBear Yeah, there's a very popular account with over 16k followers that is following me for now the 4th time. Follows a ton of folks, gets a ton of refollows, then unfollows a ton of folks soon after. Repeat ad nauseam. I've ignored them the last two times.
Hmmm 🤔 I think I may have noticed the same thing…
John Bell 🇺🇦🇪🇺🔸🕷️🏴@JoParkerBear @SerialWhiner I’ve never been a great fan of “follow back”
Lizzy 💫@JoParkerBear omfg... again?! I'm done
Stephen@JoParkerBear I love that the numbers don't actually mean anything on here, anyway. People who look at profiles of others almost always see an incomplete/inaccurate count. So it's really useless as far as I know.
Benny Powers 🇨🇦️🇮🇱️@JoParkerBear I'm happy no-algo works for you, and hope it stays the defaul
I'm a native English-speaking Canadian Israeli, living 7 hours offset from the bulk of my professional colleagues. I wish I could *opt in* to an algorithm of my choosing, even write myself, that would let me more easily catch up on posts from the American afternoon and evening.
Edit: I've got lists. I use the multi-column layout. These things don't always help, and it's an a11y issue for cognitive impairments
@bp @JoParkerBear you can follow hashtags, would that work?
@johngbell95 @JoParkerBear Only when I'm up late at night
PlineyTheNewer 🇺🇦🌻@bp @johngbell95 @JoParkerBear Following hashtags isn’t same as searching for them. You can follow them like you follow an account. Time of day has nothing to do with it. Cheers.
@PlineyTheNewer @johngbell95 @JoParkerBear It does when the posts I want to read are happening when I'm asleep. Please take a look at my previous posts in this thread. My issue here is catching up to interesting posts from 7 hours behind
hannahshouse2 🇺🇸 California@bp @johngbell95 @JoParkerBear
I created a second account on a different server and then only followed certain folks in that account and that kept all of their things in one timeline for me. Might that work for you? I also use light theme on one and dark theme on the other so I can remember which 1 I'm on.
You can also make lists and tag people to those lists and only the people tagged to the list will appear on that list timeline.
#FediTips
Mastodon Migration@JoParkerBear Agreed, one of the best things about Mastodon is that it is under your control and deterministic. You make your own choices. No one is selecting stuff for you or trying to manipulate you.
Simon 🪗@JoParkerBear tbh I'm happy for bands or journalists to use an account for announcements/links, that's useful, but love it even more when they engage too :-)
Phil Landmeier@JoParkerBear Yes. Back on the bird site, it took me a while to realize that posts from people I followed weren't showing up. So I took to manually checking the profiles of my favorite people so I didn't miss anything. That's bullshit.
hikewithrichard@JoParkerBear The familiar unfamiliar choronlogical timeline. ;-). That feature of social networks that is easy to forget on algorithm media (vice social media).
Steve Popovich@JoParkerBear exactly. Those sorts of things were the lifeblood of "influencers" (a plague on all their houses!) on corporate social media, but here they are totally irrelevant, as they should be, and always were to average users; there are no algorithms to game.
Brian BroadusI'm too old to know what any of that means. It's just that I don't have to deal with Musk and his acolytes.