I don’t disagree, but I find the entire Mastodon experience, while promising, to still be woefully inadequate as a discovery or discussion venue, and its pace of development glacial. It’s just a bit better than what we had before. In 15 years, there have been no big innovations in “discovery tools” worth noting in any of this social tech. The two big exceptions: Nuzzle, and Bluesky’s personal feeds.
@shoq the path is the right one - one chronological timeline with curated content, and one explore timeline.
We just need to empower the tools on the explore timeline, and make the search feature better (on Mastodon >=4.2 they're already much better than before, but a lot more can be done).
Development has been slow mainly because of many minorities that have come to the Fediverse to seek refuge from bullying on other platforms, and they rightly don't want their content to be easily discovered. And, as many of them are also core contributors to the platform, they have vetoed many decisions that go towards better discoverability.
While I understand their point, I don't think that everyone should settle for a partly crippled version of the Fediverse just to protect them. Trade-offs can be made to ensure that the Fedi experience can please everyone - for example, by letting users decide whether they want their content to be returned in search results or on the explore timeline.
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