Sometimes I fat finger over to the “science” and take an embarrassingly long time to notice, like, “hmmmm everybody’s talking about STEM stuff today, cool”
Not that I have ever made my own, I just glom into ones others made, but there is a culture of transparency about the composition of feeds that’s cool and probably owed to this.
Oh, I certainly wouldn't say it's necessarily bad, it's just usually full of people I don't know and a lot of posts I really don't want to see; big accounts with trite political thoughts, etc. I try to keep my experience here all about real people!
Oh, ok. See, I don't really know how things work as far as using social media beyond liking things and posting. I had to have "soft block" explained to me once a long time ago, and I still don't know what it means.
(Fwiw I believe soft-blocking people doesn't work on here; if someone's following you and you block them and then un-block them, they become your follower again. 🤷♂️)
Once someone is your follower, they never stop being your follower. The only thing you can do is block them so they can't see anything you write/post. If blocked after replying to a post of yours, their reply disappears for everyone not just you.
Your follows only follow each other. I mean, I follow tons of stuff that’s completely random, but I’m only one person in that feed. It’s both the strength and weakness of a super restrictive algorithm on that feed.
It is a super restrictive algorithm. The only differences in mine are people who were on a NOLA starter pack that I didn’t follow and a couple posts from accounts followed big names like George Takei.
I almost exclusively browse Popular With Friends. There's not quite enough critical mass here for me to be sated, so seeing what's popular with the people I already follow has been helpful.
Yeah, I'll look at it intentionally once in a while, like, let me try to find a few more cool people to follow -- then I forget I'm on there and am baffled by all the other crap I'm seeing! 😁
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