• @DeadWorldWalking
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    21 month ago

    I tried it when it first launched, has it gotten better?

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      Mastodon doesn’t have a recommendation engine really. If you’re getting lots of right wing lies and propaganda, then it’s because of who you chose to follow.

      • Echo Dot
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        11 month ago

        I would imagine that somebody who is complaining about seeing a lot of right-wing propaganda is not somebody who would follow right-wing personalities. So if they are seen right-wing propaganda, that’s a problem.

        Perhaps it kind of just glitches out if you don’t follow anyone and just gives you anything.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 month ago

          Maybe the instance they chose has more right-wing folks than average, and so their local is skewed?

          • @DeadWorldWalking
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            11 month ago

            I tried the app when it launched because I was sick of Reddit.

            There were only right wingers on the site

            • @[email protected]
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              11 month ago

              Sorry, my brain doesn’t know how to parse that.

              Mastodon isn’t an app or a site. It’s a social networking/microblogging service. So, you could use an app to access a Mastodon server, but that server wouldn’t be “the” Mastodon site, just “a” Mastodon server/instance.

              Maybe things were much more centralized in 2016, when you first tried it? I only joined last year.