GlyphThere's been a lot of fretting recently—some of it from me—about there being Too Much Politics On Here, encouraging people to (A) stop posting so much about it and (B) post about other things. This is a valid concern but I want to take a moment to put a structural lens on this problem.
Mario Munoz (has moved)@glyph It seems odd that the onus of filtering content on Mastodon is on the sender and not the receiver.
I understand that joining a community (server) maybe insinuates that you are abiding by some mandate to keep things "on topic", whatever that means.
But if that comes at the cost of self-expression, it seems like the tradeoff is not worth it.
Having tools for people to find the content they want (aka algorithms) doesn't seem so bad in this context.