Technology
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I'd really just prefer a recommendation algorithm. I tried curating it for months and I rarely go on mastodon. Because I'm either seeing 100000 posts that I'm not interested in to find one decent one, or reading posts from the very few people I know I like and closing the app in 2 minutes. I'm honestly not a fan of the purely chronological approach.
An algo requires analyzing user data, which is exactly what the fediverse doesn't want. There are front ends that surface popular Mastodon posts, but that's about it and that's how they like it.
Did the fediverse tell you that itself?
There's no single vision of the fediverse. There's no arbiter of truth on the fediverse. So count me in the camp of people who would absolutely love an app on the fediverse that tailors content to me.
That's right, there is no single vision. That's why there's so many different front ends. I currently pay $5/month to 4 different ones cause I like where they're going. Which do you support?
So obviously we're talking about it and you want one and there isn't one. Why do you think that is? Do you think that maybe projects and protocols "speak" direction by the implementation? Do you think that the fact there's a bunch of front ends and apps for Lemmy and Mastodon and all the rest and NONE of them have this feature might be a clue that the fediverse is trying to tell you something?
No, I mean, I guess "the fediverse" didn't come right out and say it to me, but I guess I can read between the lines.
But I'm super excited to see your investment in what you want! Post back here with what you come up with.