Elon made me angry so I developed a free "For You" Feed for Mastodon. It uses a very simple customizable algorithm that includes your feed but also top posts from multiple other instances. It favours accounts that were reblogged multiple times in your feed, or accounts you interacted with in the past.
Its still in early development, but if you are aware of the risks of trying out late night software you can try it here:
https://fedifeed.herokuapp.com
Also the code is here:
https://github.com/pkreissel/fedifeed/tree/main
You are not an ally to people with mental illnesses if you only care when you are not being inconvenienced!
Read that again 🙂
In light of recent Twitter changes, going further, I'm going to focus on mediums that I 100% control.
Meaning my own Mastodon instance, self-hosted blog, and newsletter.
It sucks investing a decade into Twitter and having to pay so I can reach my friends.
I'm not willing to pay, not only because pay-to-win sucks, but because it opened my eyes to what social networks do - appropriating your content and connections without any guarantee for the future.