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Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way (chrlschn.medium.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In many ways, Mastodon feels like rewinding the clock on social media back to the early days of Twitter and Facebook. On the consume side, that means that your home feed has no algorithm (this can be disorienting at first).

Practically, it means that you see only what you want to see and only see it linearly. You never wonder “why am I seeing this and how do I make it go away?”. Content can only enter your home feed via your followed tags or handles and the feed is linear like the early days of social media.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One thing I want from Mastodon is to see the likes of people because I like to follow artists and see what they're liking lol -- but that might go against the intended usage, not sure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's what boosts are for. You can see what others boost on their profile as a sort of repost. The like, is not a like, it's there for feature parity with Xitter. But every app and instance calls it something different, but generally it's a favorite button. So you have, boost, favorite, and bookmark. Boost are intended to be seen by others, favorites are for the original poster, and bookmarks are private for yourself. I've read that quote boosts are coming, but I'm not a fan of the feature. Find it to be really toxic. But we'll see how it pans out when the feature is implemented.