A non-negligible % of my federated (!) timeline is @flancian and @thor .

Should I take from this that really not a whole lot is going on atm or does Mastodon do some smart-ish algorithmic feed?

@flancian @srs @thor @SocialCoop @admin it’s really that quiet, there is no algorithm on Masto.

I think the primarily broadcast nature of commercial social media is different than micro blog / work out loud of different fediverse instances.

So what are the norms — and interfaces — of different instances?

@bmann @flancian @thor @SocialCoop @admin schelling.pt mostly feels like regular half-political vulnerable anonymous chaos twitter to me. - just with much lower bandwidth. @locus

darmstadt.social (which I follow via Fedilab) is basically this 1-2 open software nerds afaiu.

It would be so nice to have more filtering options btw. between local and global. Like "gimme these 5 instances put together, plus all follows".

@srs @bmann @thor @SocialCoop @admin @locus yeah, that's a great idea IMHO. 'local' and 'fediverse' are, like, two starter views.

Thesis: a good state for the fediverse is to have [[n]] socially curated timelines; that is, n timelines with open admission criteria/ranking algorithms maintained by the community.

@srs @bmann @thor @SocialCoop @admin @locus true. Thank you for spotting!

a [[stoa]]: anagora.org/node/stoa

This seems to overlap with the scope of the first and second stoas to begin with.

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