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Hot take: developing an open source For You algorithm for mastodon that shows you posts based on your likes inbetween every other chronological post would be great (lemmy.ml)
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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.

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[-] mojo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

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.

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