[sloowm]

This limits how many people you can follow. You can't follow people who occasionally post a banger but also post a lot of stuff you don't care about.

I don't think algorithms are the issue but the intent of the algorithm is where it falls apart for most social media. It's not to cater to what you want to see but to what will keep you watching.

Mastodon missing a feature to somewhat curate your timeline automatically is what stops it from wide adoption.

[rakoo]

Apparently what stops it from wide adoption is people commenting on Mastodon while not knowing it.

If you want to curate your timeline you use lists; one I use is "those accounts who rarely post and I want to see it all"

[latexr]

> This limits how many people you can follow.

Which is valid to be looked at as a feature rather than a deficiency.

> Mastodon missing a feature to somewhat curate your timeline automatically is what stops it from wide adoption.

Citation needed. There’s always something that someone points out as “the reason that stops Mastodon from wide adoption”, yet its usage continues to rise slow and steady. Maybe what’s wrong is not the slow adoption of Mastodon, but the rapid adoption of other social networks which have billions of dollars behind them with perverse incentives to consume your life so you consume advertised products.

[thaumasiotes]

> You can't follow people who occasionally post a banger but also post a lot of stuff you don't care about.

Well, you can. It depends how much you care about the part of their content that you like.

Mostly you'd follow someone else who does the job of filtering for you, and you'd hear about the great stuff slightly slower than people who followed that guy directly. You might not see that banger until the following day.

[timbit42]

Follow hashtags. I don't follow anyone on Mastodon. That way I only see posts that are relevant to my interests.

[prmoustache]

If it is "a banger", there is reasonnable change it goes to you through shared posts.

Also there is a page with Trending Posts, Trending Hashtags, Trending News and Trending Accounts.