"content recommendation is only for stupid people" is a brand new form of gatekeeping that i haven't heard before!
notatoad
joined 1 year ago
Mastodon is a good reminder of why algorithmic feeds exist
The option for a chronological feed is nice, but without an algorithm filling in the gaps it’s really hard to get started on there
yeah, elon's not going to see the negative consequences of this personally, because he'll just use the "ban" button instead of the "block" button.
It’s always good to step back from “companies” and think of companies as just a bunch of people.
Is it good for companies to force employees back to the office? Nah, probably not. Is it good for the guy who has to explain why he signed a 10-year lease on all that office space, and now it’s sitting empty? Yup. Is it good for the lonely manager who wants to be surrounded by people, and has the power to make that happen? Yup. Is it good for the exec who has to find some reason why his department is underperforming, and decides remote work is a good scapegoat? Ehhh….
It’s not a feature. It’s included in the information that instances share with other instances.
If you want to know that info, you need to run an instance and not get defederated.
Id make better people use it