Post #3167787

2026-01-22 19:29 UTC

I like Mastodon but it can’t compete with X. The lack of discoverability is non-starter for many. Its greatest benefits are also its biggest barriers to mainstream appeal. Bluesky says it’s decentralized, but at the end of the day it’s an American company. They just aren’t the right tools for this particular job. What this “W social” wants to be is “European Twitter”.

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@gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-01-24 00:33

> The lack of discoverability is non-starter for many. The Fediverse significantly lacks behind on the Content Discoverability technology. I guess this is because there was a loud public outcry in the last 20 years that whoever makes your feed (this is called an "recommendation algorithm" or abbreviated "the algorithm") has a lot of political power to decide what you see and what you don't see, and that's frowned upon. Because everybody that has power over what you see and what you don't see is bad. That is why nobody wanted to provide an recommendation algorithm for the fediverse, because they would expose themselves to wild accusations. There should be an open-source recommendation algorithm, though; I'm sure of it.

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@OpenStars@piefed.social 2026-01-23 00:27

Then it sounds more like they want to be the European next Bluesky.

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@73ms@sopuli.xyz 2026-01-23 08:46

what in particular do you mean by lack of discoverability?

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@sibachian@lemmy.ml 2026-01-24 18:15

the "lack of discoverability" is the only reason we're talking about this problem in the first place. algorithms have utterly fucked the world and if no one stops them we're beyond fucked so the fact that someone thinks it's bad and is unwilling to try using a platform you need to curate your own content on (like reddit before it went to shit) is just people willingly stepping into the lions mouth.

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