It's not just Mastodon. MANY open projects are working on theirs as well. Bonfire (as well as others) are working on Circles. Surf has curated feeds. :) It's built into the Fediverse. ;)
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That’s good. The average user actually need a hand.
Not saying they need algorithms, but the fediverse can’t grow without something that fill the gap.
Oh my his finally. The only fediverse platform I use is Lemmy because finding interesting stuff and communities here is so easy. Mastodon is a pain in the ass by comparison, and starter packs really helped me find some cool accounts at the beginning of Bluesky.
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My big issue with starter packs was that I'd follow them, and they'd have some random content creator in it that was tangentially related to the starter pack. Great, that's fine. I don't need the same 12 people giving me news and updates, etc.
The problem was that they would inevitably be on my feed, constantly talking about other stuff I am not interested in, and hardly ever discussing the starter pack subject. Which again, is fine. But I don't want that, I wanted the starter pack subject matter, and get unrelated content. So I just unfollowed all the starter packs.
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Neat! I either followed accounts from elsewhere, or they randomly found me and I found them back, or or I started using tags and people comment on my things and we follow each other sometimes.
The packs are probably much easier!
About time.
Amazing!
Until there's an easy way to have an algorithm other than date order, Mastodon will always be sort of "meh" for me.
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