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adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:
Our email exchange continues, and it's good. I'm trying to make the case that algorithm-free social tools like Mastodon are nothing like their algo-driven counterparts, and that Mastodon is more similar to blogs and RSS than this person may realize.
A point I made: if you encounter outrage on traditional social media (X, Facebook, etc.), it's because it was amplified to boost engagement and drive revenue on that platform. If you encounter outage on Mastodon, it's because you follow someone who happens to be upset, or you follow someone who's sharing a post about someone else who’s upset. This is no different than if you subscribed to someone's RSS feed and they publish a cranky post, or they publish a post about someone else's crankiness. In both cases, if you don't like what you see, you can just unfollow/unsubscribe (or filter/mute if your RSS client lets you do that, like you can on Mastodon).