On: Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

[riffraff]

Mastodon does not have an automated feed like Twitter does, so what you see in your feed is people you follow and their boosts. Just don't follow people who are interested in your sex life.

[kps → riffraff]

Personally, I don't want to follow people, I want to follow subjects. I want to read Jay Expert's posts on their speciality without their posts on politics and breakfast. Maybe Bluesky feeds will make that possible (in which case Bluesky kills Reddit).

[timbit42 → kps]

That's why I follow hashtags instead of people on Mastodon. It gives me a very high signal to noise ratio.

[ChocolateGod → kps]

Agreed. Politics on micro logging sites is terrible.

[archagon → EarlKing]

Most of the degeneracy I see is on Twitter, not Mastodon.

[ChocolateGod → archagon]

They're both terrible echo chambers, one created by Musk and the other created by random instance admins.

[tempaccount420 → archagon]

Different strokes for different folx.