Jeff C. 🇺🇦🇬🇱Aug 11, 2023

Discovery here IS bad, and — I hate to say it — the solution to that is an (entirely optional) algorithm that surfaces potential follows and compelling content right out of the gate.

Algorithms aren’t inherently evil. Hell, “show posts in reverse chronological order” is in itself an algorithm.

What matters are 1) choice and 2) the intention with which the algorithm was designed.

#Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@mimsical/110865836818850808

Show threadJeff C. 🇺🇦🇬🇱Aug 11, 2023

I was able to bootstrap myself here relatively easily because I was both part of the deluge of Twitter users in November of 2022 as well as highly-motivated to make it work because I hated what Twitter was becoming and inherently grokked the benefit of federation.

That’s not going to be the common case.

If Mastodon is to expand far beyond low-hanging fruit like me it absolutely needs to meet users halfway.

Show threadDesign by AdrianAug 11, 2023
@jeff I’m still not getting the satisfaction from quality posts I used to get from when Twitter was good, so I agree that some kind of suggestion algorithm is needed for a service like this.
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@designbyadrian @jeff @mammoth has a for you tab, which helps.
Aug 11, 2023 at 8:06amIceCubesApp