Dave Mark"Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way"
Terrific read by @chrlschn. Totally agree.
El Duvelle
Matt Birchler@davemark I think the thing I differ with the biggest Masto fans on is following hashtags. Every time I've tried it it's meant my feed is filled to the brim with spam, junk content. It's like drinking from a firehose, and really exposes how most of the things people post on social media aren't of interest to me.
Finding people who post and boost interesting things has proven WAAAY more useful to me. I suppose it's nice that Masto allows me to have a good experience too.
@matt I’m still figuring all this out. I think there’s value in both approaches. Thinking there’s a need for a tool to help discover the gold bits in the firehose.
@matt Yes! A tool that lets you make rules or that uses some form of ML to cherry pick.
@davemark Yup, would love that as a power user.
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Jérôme
Gabriele Pollara@matt i think following the F1 hashtag to be v effective - means I can join in subject specific conversations, without following people who are otherwise v diverse / different to my interests...
@gpollara I get that. For me I just find the firehose of every single person’s posts on a topic to be overwhelming. The hashtag drowns out the people in my feed I specifically follow as well, which is a bummer.
If it works, then that’s great! I just think following hashtags is often pitched as a one-size-fits-all solution, which I don’t think it is.
Jonathan Hendry
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Adrian Morales
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