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title: "Finding Cool People on Mastodon"
date: 2022-05-15T20:39:35-04:00
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title: Finding Cool People on Mastodon
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Mastodon is a cool federated micro-blogging platform that can serve as an alternative to Twitter. One of its primary features is that it shows what they call toots from only people you follow in reverse-chronological order. Nowadays, large tech companies employ recommendation engines to surface content from users (you don't even need to follow) in a non-chronological order driven by the number of interactions users similar to you had with the content. The lack of recommendation engine in Mastodon can be a blessing as low-quality emotional content tends to drive more interactions. However, this can also be a curse as cool new people don't naturally surface in your feed. The following are the techniques I employ to consistently seek out cool new people:
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## Conclusion
The lack of recommendation engine has driven the Mastodon community to create new and novel ways of discovering new people. It wouldn't surprise me if within the year a whole new set of tools are made available to us. Though I have to say, the default of not showing unfollowed accounts in our feeds is really nice. It means that our Mastodon experience is truly unique to us, and that we can curate them to our liking.
The lack of recommendation engine has driven the Mastodon community to create new and novel ways of discovering new people. It wouldn't surprise me if within the year a whole new set of tools are made available to us. Though I have to say, the default of not showing unfollowed accounts in our feeds is really nice. It means that our Mastodon experience is truly unique to us, and that we can curate them to our liking.