Scott Jenson6d ago

Is #mastodon becoming an echo chamber? This post from @carnage4life has me questioning our community. The Mastodon team is finally getting some traction, the product improvements are increasing, The #UX is improving, yet people posting on multiple platforms are making comments like this. It's confusing.

I *know* people here don't want this to be a classic social media-clone but we'd *like* journalists to be here right? They aren't coming with examples like this!

Show threadmormund
@scottjenson @carnage4life Not sure why a journalist would be disappointend that people hate "AI".
Generally taking engangement as a KPI for journalism is understandable for obvious economical reasons. But I don't want to be engaged by journalism. I want be informed and often enough also left alone and look at kittens and nerdy projects instead.
Apr 5 at 2:53pmTusky
Show threadScott Jenson6d ago
@mormund And you have every right to do that. But do that with filtering/blocking/hashtags. Don't do it by chasing away people that want to be part of the community. "Gatekeeping" is not a good look for an "open social" network.
Show threadmormund6d ago
@scottjenson totally with you. I apologize if I came across like that, I think this place could do lot more to welcome people, especially from marginalized groups. But I think we shouldn't chase the content machinery here either
Show threaddeutrino4d ago

@scottjenson @mormund for your consideration: I have a set of politics filters with over 400 terms, which I laboriously keep in sync, by hand, across multiple Mastodon accounts - most of which I'll permanently migrate to other ActivityPub software in the next couple months.

these filters allow me to engage with the omnipresent flood of (mostly US) politics #onhere when & how I want.

maybe Mastodon needs better filtering beyond just whole-word + substring, and a way to easily share filter sets.