On the Lemmy specific front, Active daily users seems to still be stabilising following the exodus from elsewhere, Comments and Posts both seem to be on the rise though – promising stats all in all.

  • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Ah, I see. I’ve never used those platforms, but I always thought that I could just see a newsfeed with posts of people I follow.

    • static_motion@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      You can, but the feeds that are supposed to help you find people to follow in the first place are important, and Mastodon’s are awful.

      • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        1 year ago

        But why should do you need some algorithm to find some people to follow? Unless you talk about a search algorithm?

        • static_motion@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          No, I’m talking about the hypothetical algorithm that fills a page with things you might be interested in. Twitter has it (even though it’s not necessarily good), even Reddit these days has some of that, it’s a feature in most social media websites and sometimes quite a useful one, and Mastodon just lacks it altogether.

          • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I know how those algorithms work. And they suck because they quickly spoon-feed you bullshit if you’re not careful enough.

        • stoiclime@lemm.eeEnglish
          21·
          1 year ago

          Bluesky does it the best. It supports community made custom algorithms, so I use a Discover feed to find people I like.