• Gork@sopuli.xyz
    7·
    2 days ago

    I wanted to get into Mastodon, but I can see why it didn’t take off as much compared to Bluesky. It didn’t prepopulate the home feed on first sign up (it was empty), and only gives a small selection of people to follow and you only see their posts. Bluesky does a similar thing, but the home feed uses suggestions based on the people you initially follow to populate the home feed with others as well.

    I think mass adoption would be easier for Mastodon to achieve with that kind of algorithmically generated prepopulation.

    Also obligatory Fuck X.

    • Bappity@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      blueskys algorithm is so funny

      I followed one friend when I first joined and my entire feed was suddenly furries cos my friend liked those posts xD

    • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      mastodon/the fediverse could learn a lot in taking the ability or users to create custom feeds, labellers, and moderation services like on bsky, honestly.

    • PNW clouds@infosec.pub
      2·
      2 days ago

      What’s kinda funny, this is exactly why I like Mastodon. I’m only seeing what I want.

      But I spent a bit of time everyday checking out people that the people I followed had reposted and various recommdation lists. Then discovered hashtags, now I collect those. #bloomscrolling and #caturday amongst the first to freshen up the feed.

      It took a few minutes a day and it was kind of fun finding communities and people.

      I’d rather Bluesky properly federate so I could have Mark Hamill and a few others in my Mastodon feed without having to check Bluesky too.

      Mastodon is like going to the local pub, I see my people. Bluesky is like going to Summerfest or your insert favorite huge music fest with tons of famous bands and tiny side stages and super crowded and it’s easy to lose your friends.

    • lwe@feddit.org
      2·
      2 days ago

      I think instead they should suggest some hashtags. I.e. Topics the person is interested in. And the rest could work just as it is now. You would immediately have your home feed populated without doom scrolling topics you don’t care about. But really it’s more on the app developers to implement.