RE: https://mastodon.social/@hfalcke/117455063326697336
To add: Mastodon's chronological timeline also does actually make specific curation choices, and it does not actually show you all posts from an account you follow.
Suppose you follow Alice. You only see replies Alice makes if you also follow the account she replies to, replies by Alice to accounts you don't follow don't show up in your Home timeline.
I think this is fine! But chronological feeds are not neutral, they make specific and meaningful curation choices about the content you see
Mastodon has no algorithm, right? Wrong! Mastodon does. The algorithm is chronological ordering. If you do not have the time to read everything this means statistically you mainly get to see those accounts that post a lot of stuff. The precious ones that post little but that you really want to see you miss most likely. Hence, would it not be better if one would allow a variety of algorithms that the user can control? Why not federated algorithms? I choose the algorithm that fits me. #fediverse
