If we had an open source algorithm for Mastodon/Pixelfed that learned based on the words in the post and image/video we could have a Following + For You feed that showed you all the posts from people you follow and you could choose to see, say, 1 recommended For You post after every 3 posts from your Following feed. With the option to disable For You posts completely or tweak how often you see these.
Discovering new people to follow on mastodon/pixelfed isn’t great (hashtags are rarely used and make posts look ugly) so I still occasionally use twitter because I often discover new indie animators/gamedevs showing off their project making it really nice to browse the For You feed.
Is this a showerthought or a pitch meeting?
100%. Simply keep chronological order for the boomers on there and give us a For You algo for actual interesting content. I don’t want to keep getting gaslit that it’s supposedly better and more natural that way–It’s boring as hell.
ehhh idk, just use hashtags or look on specific instances if you wanna find new stuff
