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    312 hours ago

    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.

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      411 hours ago

      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

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        210 hours ago

        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.

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      311 hours ago

      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