I love Mastodon, but sometimes I miss algorithmic timelines. Not because I want to be fed slop, but because federation makes it genuinely hard to discover people outside your bubble.

So I built a tiny script that scrapes the public timeline once a day and hands me 10 posts it thinks I'll care about. Static keyword matching (Opinions about AI, trans stuff, ADHD, Go, cooking) + a pass through an LLM to filter out engagement bait and generic motivational garbage.

Now I get a little digest every morning. No auto-likes, no bot spam, just: "hey, here's some stuff you might actually want to read."

AI for content generation in social media? Hard pass. AI to help me find content I wouldn't have seen otherwise? That's the good stuff