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bovaz@misskey.social
bovaz@misskey.social
@bovaz@misskey.social  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago
@futurebird@sauropods.win @aurochs@todon.eu I like that. I think people should then also be able to opt-in to a "thing" where they also sporadically get posts that aren't in any of their chosen feeds, but are "related", for example by virtue of being in the feeds of the some of the people they follow, to give the sense of serendipitous discovery of new stuff. Maybe, a somehow tunable "serendipity factor" that widens the concept "related".
I think a tab like tab would usually be more useful/interesting than the local/global timelines.
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myrmepropagandist
myrmepropagandist
@futurebird@sauropods.win replied  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

@bovaz @aurochs

I would love it if there were a feed with more funny posts. You know like dril tweet type content.

I'm very happy about the complex issues and deep discussions but sometimes I'd just like to see some nonsense.

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Stefan Bohacek
Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@futurebird Have you seen https://fedidevs.com/s/NjQ5/ by any chance? Seems like a pretty solid list!

@bovaz @aurochs

https://fedidevs.com/s/NjQ5/
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myrmepropagandist
myrmepropagandist
@futurebird@sauropods.win replied  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

@bovaz @aurochs

Curating content is real work. Tiktok didn't talk about it a lot but they put a great deal of effort into making the first experience users had with the app fun.

Showing them things they'd never seen before that were funny, or exciting ... using the spy data to tailor it to the particular user. Using the way the user scrolled to improve that experience.

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myrmepropagandist
myrmepropagandist
@futurebird@sauropods.win replied  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

@bovaz @aurochs

I think most people here find that kind of tracking and filtering a little creepy? But, it was also very convenient.

Over here we are like "follow two-dozen hash tags, and 300 people and then MAYBE your feed will be kind of interesting." Alternately? Here is the fire hose of your server's feed with 200 posts from the same person. Or the global feed which is just chaos.

Can we respect the art and craft of curating content? Can we make it a human thing?

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Phosphenes
Phosphenes
@Phosphenes@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

@futurebird @bovaz @aurochs

Yep I'd like my own private bird dog algorithm to sniff out feeds that match my tastes. It could even run on my own desktop computer and not bother anyone else. Trading them like baseball cards does sound fun.

Regarding OP question about why Mastodon is still small:

1. Obvious network effects. Nobody's there so nobody's there. This will slowly improve. (But the people who *are* here are really interesting!)

2. Not a business so no marketing.

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myrmepropagandist
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@futurebird@sauropods.win replied  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

@Phosphenes @bovaz @aurochs

The fedi is slowly becoming a NORC (naturally occurring retirement community)

Only facebook has an older userbase.

And being more old than young that isn't a personal problem. But I wish there was more interest in making it a place younger people would care about. And that would mean listening to them.

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