Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO

Re:Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO by runako on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @05:22PM (#42704763)

Bluesky also has a followers feed like Mastodon. I use that one sometimes, but it's easy to toggle over to one of the algorithmic feeds as well. Sort of best of both.

Worth noting that some algorithms can be done client-side, but it may not be feasible or desirable to do so. For example in the open protocol of email, some huge majority of all mail is supposedly spam. Filtering client-side would be a tremendous waste of resources. I suspect the same could become true of any open protocol like Mastodon or AT.

Either way, I think the proliferation of sites is good for the digital ecosystem.

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Re:Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO by bigiain on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @06:06PM (#42705155)

> some huge majority of all mail is supposedly spam. Filtering client-side would be a tremendous waste of resources. I suspect the same could become true of any open protocol like Mastodon or AT.

I once had access to the Twitter Firehose.

It was, as you say, a mindbogglingly tremendous waste of resources.

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