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On the Lemmy specific front, Active daily users seems to still be stabilising following the exodus from elsewhere, Comments and Posts both seem to be on the rise though – promising stats all in all.

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[–] StoicLime@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Its not as good as it sounds. There should be some kind of sorting. I follow #food but I get low-quality content of any random user taking a picture of their refrigerator at the top of my feed just because they posted 1s ago.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, I see. I've never used those platforms, but I always thought that I could just see a newsfeed with posts of people I follow.

[–] static_motion@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can, but the feeds that are supposed to help you find people to follow in the first place are important, and Mastodon's are awful.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But why should do you need some algorithm to find some people to follow? Unless you talk about a search algorithm?

[–] StoicLime@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Bluesky does it the best. It supports community made custom algorithms, so I use a Discover feed to find people I like.

[–] static_motion@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, I'm talking about the hypothetical algorithm that fills a page with things you might be interested in. Twitter has it (even though it's not necessarily good), even Reddit these days has some of that, it's a feature in most social media websites and sometimes quite a useful one, and Mastodon just lacks it altogether.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I know how those algorithms work. And they suck because they quickly spoon-feed you bullshit if you're not careful enough.

Do you follow many people? I used to have that issue when I first signed up and was just looking at my entire fedirated feed. Since paring it down to local or follows only, it's a lot nicer while retaining some of that cozy vibe that I like.