A photograph of a short-eared owl mid-flight was the last Instagram post biology professor Carl Bergstrom shared before announcing his departure from the platform Jan. 10.
  • realitista@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Thanks for the update. Yes the recommended feed is personalized. It’s optional. The main feed has no algorithm, just who you follow.

    Keyword blocking is a bit more sophisticated on Bluesky I think as they have a crowdsourced tagging system which allows you to opt in an out also of tagged words regardless of whether they appear in the body of the post.

    • FarceOfWill@infosec.pubEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      The tagging sounds great. One of the problems with masto is showing the hashtags in the body making posts that use them look awful, and of course being entirely set by the author

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      Yes the recommended feed is personalized. It’s optional. The main feed has no algorithm, just who you follow.

      The thing is, a lot of social media sites have or had this. YouTube has the subscriptions feed. Twitter has (I don’t know anymore) a following feed. Reddit used to keep posts on your homepage only being from subscribed subreddits.

      One problem. People don’t use them. They see maintaining subscriptions as work and so want to be fed posts by algorithm.