Bluesky has gained over 1.25 million new users in the past week, indicating some social media users are changing their habits following the U.S. election.
It’s just a mathematical inevitablity that it won’t work well.
Most people’s posts are not as good as their best ones and if I’m just going to dip into a site I’d like to see things I’m interested in that other people also thought were good.
Some people don’t like to use social media like that though, and more power to you if Mastodon scratches your itch.
Are there not clients that have a Hot feed? I’ve never used anything Twitter adjacent, but on Lemmy, functionality like that seems to vary between apps. Personally though, I’d never use something that doesn’t allow sorting by New. I prefer to keep up with the communities I’m involved in rather than just seeing a bunch of clickbait
I didn’t think so. It’s a deliberate design decision by the developers to make it really hard to compute.
This is actually something where Bluesky is doing more interesting federated things than Lemmy or Mastodon, and let’s you use your own algorithm while with both Lemmy and Mastodon you’re stuck with standard algorithms.
None of the alternative algorithms are particularly compelling yet, they’re mostly topic feeds, but who knows what’ll happen.
Ok, you weren’t able to find interesting things on mastodon, it’s not mastodon’s fault if you followed doctors who post complete articles, but in any case you’d rather sell your data than make the effort. Good for you that you have found your place
It’s just a mathematical inevitablity that it won’t work well.
Most people’s posts are not as good as their best ones and if I’m just going to dip into a site I’d like to see things I’m interested in that other people also thought were good.
Some people don’t like to use social media like that though, and more power to you if Mastodon scratches your itch.
That is, you’d rather have an algorithm tell you what’s fun or interesting than the ability to discover things organically. Ok, bluesky is your place
And yet you’re on Lemmy which also has a hot feed.
The things is you can do both, and it’s hard and unrewarding to find interesting things on Mastodon. So I stopped trying.
The really dumb things is the new feed is also an algorithm. You’re just proud that it’s not very good.
Are there not clients that have a Hot feed? I’ve never used anything Twitter adjacent, but on Lemmy, functionality like that seems to vary between apps. Personally though, I’d never use something that doesn’t allow sorting by New. I prefer to keep up with the communities I’m involved in rather than just seeing a bunch of clickbait
I didn’t think so. It’s a deliberate design decision by the developers to make it really hard to compute.
This is actually something where Bluesky is doing more interesting federated things than Lemmy or Mastodon, and let’s you use your own algorithm while with both Lemmy and Mastodon you’re stuck with standard algorithms.
None of the alternative algorithms are particularly compelling yet, they’re mostly topic feeds, but who knows what’ll happen.
Ok, you weren’t able to find interesting things on mastodon, it’s not mastodon’s fault if you followed doctors who post complete articles, but in any case you’d rather sell your data than make the effort. Good for you that you have found your place