People talk about the "lack of an algorithm" on Mastodon a lot, but one thing I love about it that this doesn't capture is how my timeline is almost entirely bicycle and co-op related content and that this is by design. I've followed several hash tags, groups, etc. and heavily curated what I see. You can't do that on Twitter and the like because the algorithm will insist on showing you content that it thinks will drive engagement. Mastodon does have an algorithm, it's just a user driven one.
@sam I think the problem is mainly that new users start out with an very empty timeline. Some very profilic boosters kinda make up for that by suggesting other accounts to follow, but some more options for instance admins to suggest stuff would be nice. Akkoma for example has the Bubble concept that allows instance admins to add a set of trusted instances that appear in a combined feed similar to the local one.
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