I saw a take that was like "bluesky needs an algorithm, I don't want to see 100 posts like 'i made coconut curry today'" and I cannot disagree more. I log on to humanity's World Wide Web to see human thoughts. I do not need a god damned robot to tell me which thoughts it thinks are the most human
The problem is that when it’s *really* a linear timeline, it’s prone to spambots and also the most irrelevant topics you forgot that you didn’t care about. This was my Mastodon experience.
Agreed!
If you make it for a guy named Stephen you'll have made Stephen Curry.
i genuinely love seeing people i follow make random little posts like that
Threads’ opening salvo for me was antisemitism and cryptobros. Meta knows what sells.
Id rather see my friend’s post abt coconut curry than some rando’s entire thesis
Tell me more about this coconut curry recipe. Will I need galangal?
Not to mention how people abuse algorithms to get their posts highlighted. Just trashes everyone’s feeds.
I don't want to see the curries either, so I've been using the Discover algorithm. Oddly, this is a mixture of drawings of women with enormous breasts, photos of large hairy gentlemen, and awful news about US politics. (My new year's resolution is no more doomscrolling.)