I've had the idea for a weird kind of Twitter client for years. With Mastodon being all open, I've decided to do the experiment:

What if your Timeline looked like iMessage. A normal timeline confuses me to no end because everything is out of context.

My experiment, Ebou, is a Mastodon client that looks like iMessage. Conversations are grouped by friends and sorted by recent postings.

It is super basic right now, but this already feels much more natural to me 😀

Journalists were some of my most valuable follows back on Twitter, but I'd not yet found many of them on Mastodon.

Turns out I wasn't looking in the right places. @tchambers has a list of more than 1000 of them + their fediverse handles: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP6HcREtA/htmlview #news #journalists

hi! my name's David, and I like the algorithms. They throw random stuff at me and I get a sample from the firehose of what's going on. It's good.

The catch with Twitter and Facebook is they're using them against you. I'd like some random interesting stuff algorithms here.

why yes 2020 bludgeoned home to me the precise nature of long untreated ADHD.

(no, treatment as an adult is ~impossible to get in the UK without a year or two of jumping through hoops, precisely because the medically indicated treatment is amphetamines.)

I realise the Mastodon developer considers this a wrong thing to want. He is incorrect, it's a fine thing to want. The problem is the abuse of data, not the interest algorithm.

Anyway. Are there any fun algorithmic timeline bolt-ons for Mastodon?

(Responses to this that start "just" are likely not understanding what I'm saying here.)

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If you'd like to teach English, for only one hour every TWO weeks, please consider applying!

If you speak Ukrainian or Russian to any degree, and/or if you have teaching experience - you'll be given priority❗

Boosts are appreciated 🙏🏻

Link to apply: https://www.movagroup.eu/eng/volunteer