[yomritoyj]

For me Twitter is mainly a substitute to RSS: a central location to consume interesting content from diverse sources. In that role having an algorithmically curated as opposed to a strictly chronological feed is essential. For most people/entities I follow I'm interested in only a fraction of their tweets and I can rely on Twitter to do a good enough job of surfacing them for me. By following about a thousand accounts I can reliably hear about the latest trends in the areas that interest me by spending about half an hour each day.

On the other hand, right now I follow only a few dozen accounts on Mastodon and I'm already drowning in irrelevant posts. It can at best be a glorified group chat.

[alkonaut]

You mean you see posts by other people than those you follow?

On Twitter I just follow say 100 people and my client shows me their posts in chronological order and nothing else, with no ads.

If a feed tried to algorithmically insert a post I’d stop using that service in a hurry.

What I have seen from mastodon is that there is such a feed available so by the look of it, so far so good.