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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/372863

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/61363

The right-wing billionaire’s platform has recently lost about 10 percent of its European user base.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

3 is a feature to me. The "algorithms" seem to create bubbles, and I want to decide myself.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

and bluesky doesn’t have a default algorithm either, but allows you to subscribe to algorithms created by other people

being able to choose how the information is presented is the way

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That seems like a good way, to give the user the option. In your opinion, are these algorithms transparent enough to understand or even verify for regular users?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

yes and no… essentially they’re http services that people run, so they can either be closed or FOSS… i could see a future where there’s like those 1-click “run on ” on github pages and you can audit the code if you want, and self host

they call them “feeds” if you’re interested in going deep

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some people want to make social media account to browse illustration or photography.

Unfortunately, that's not doable on fediverse. You follow anyone, and suddenly your feed filled with content that you are not interested in. Example: your favourite artist also post a lot of game screenshoot, but you're not interested in the games. You just want to see the illustration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You can follow hashtags and also block them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Not everything is under hashtag. Most of artist I follow never put hashtag. Hashtag also not useful in multilanguage situation, where a hashtag can mean different think between communities and languages.