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

submitted 2 years 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] 124 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (68 children)

Put it simply I just hate ads. Anything that puts in ads is terrible. Including Sync for Lemmy who seems to have completely missed the point of getting the hell away from Reddit.

The next terrible thing is automatically generated content and bots, but I guess those are also really just ads.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (10 children)

When's the last time you developed and released a full fledged software project for free?

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