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by pxoe 74 days ago
But mastodon has algorithms. (trending feed, news feed, suggested accounts, etc.) Maybe they're just kinda bad or the posts are lacking.
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All of them are optional and can be disable at the instance-wide level, in addition to some of them having account level opt outs.

They also are still generally bound to an instance's own horizon: there's no global "trending feed" (and it would be really hard to create one), these optional "algorithmic" tools still differ from instance to instance based on what that instance follows and its trading relationship to its neighbors.