So wait, hold on, I have to come back to this despite myself now.
You want the "benefits" of algorithms forcing views onto people who don't want to see them to make unpopular people become popular anyway, but you don't want there to actually *be* algorithms? How does this even work?
Remember, on Mastodon, as we say, "you are the algorithm." People follow who they want! The only way to do what you describe is an algorithm forcing them out onto feeds anyway...
Nazo
npub1mr…luec3
2026-08-20 21:54:28 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…tvj2
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