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Why is Lemmy, with a tiny fraction of Mastodon's MAU, more fun than Mastodon? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] akrz 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Hard agree on the algorithm point.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It stems from a somewhat reactionary (in a "I don't want chemicals in my food" way) prospective where they knew the outcome of algorithms was bad but didn't understand why it was bad. Now they have their own algorithm and it's repeating a lot of the same mistakes.

[–] akrz 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The chemicals analogy is actually pretty genius!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

We've all seen a "I don't want chemicals in my food" reactionary. They're not racist or anything just fueled more by anger than by principal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

So what would be the solution as I believe many fedinautes and mastonautes agree on the fact that the way traditional social network did their algorithms is bad. Should the community develop a new kind of algorithm? Or a functionality to build your own?

[–] akrz 4 points 7 months ago

I would love for some interoperable interface with a few default choices and then the option to load customized open source options!