Curious what you all thought for what things like Lemmy, Revolt, Mastodon, PeerTube, Bluesky, Flashes, etc would need to be able to grow fast and well to get many users joining up

Because it’s high time everyone drops all the way less than ideal platforms/apps/websites/news sources

I’ll add on too:

Content creators that are engaging, clear, & entertaining explaining things with great videos showing Fediverse, etc stuff will help in various ways

  • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    As someone who doesn’t know the first thing about bsky, IMO as long as they’re centralized and closed source, it’s not possible to call their algorithm opt-in, nor configurable. You simply can’t know how they’ve arrived at the content they are (or more importantly, are not) serving you.

    But yes, I do think lemmy and ActivityPub services in general need to prioritize user control over custom “algorithms” for filtering and prioritizing content.

    • kobra@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 days ago

      Yeah it def is opt in. The only two default feeds you get are literally an algo free timeline and discover timeline, it defaults to the algorithm free timeline iirc.

      Sure, their discover tab is closed source algorithm but you don’t have to use it. In addition, you can create and import your own algorithms (which becomes necessary because you can’t follow hashtags, which is frustrating)