Fedi.Tips@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
@lazyb0y@mastodon.social
The problem with algorithms is that it would require the platform to spy on you by keeping track of what you're doing, so there would be a risk to your privacy. It would also allow the platform to manipulate what you're seeing. The idea of not using algorithms is to protect people's privacy and prevent them being manipulated by making it impossible.
Having said that, there are many different ways you can customise your timeline so it's more manageable: https://fedi.tips/does-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-use-algorithms-does-it-start-pushing-stuff-at-me-based-on-my-interactions/
Lazy B0y@lazyb0y@mastodon.social
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
to my understanding this is technically incorrect.
an algorithm can even be a static calculation method and does not necessarily require „watching“ me.
it could just be „fill most of the feed by whatever is posted right now by people the user follows in chronological order, but every 5th post display sprinkle a random post from at least 1h ago to max 10h ago“
that’s an algorithm.
for that matter, even „chronological order“ is actually an algorithm…
