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When I tried Mastodon, I found I couldn't get the content I'm interested in there. I'm not really interested in following specific people; instead I want to see posts that fit my interests, regardless of who made them. Hence (apparently very unpopular on the Fediverse), I actually want an algorithm that can create a personalized content feed for me. Is there a platform that has that?

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[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

instead I want to see posts that fit my interests, regardless of who made them.

Follow hashtags then? I mean I'm following a good 40 or so people so far, largely newsy type things, but I've followed dozens and dozens of different hashtags so whatever gets posted with them pops up in my feed.

No need to go following Generic Mastodon User #374645 Who Likes Transformers™ when I can just follow #transformers to see my dumb robo pics lol

[–] misnina@crystals.rest 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hashtags exist for that purpose. You can follow them to be put into your home feed. As well, if you use the advanced web interface (like tweet deck), you can create a column with modifiers. Such as, I have a column that searches for both #pixelart and #lowpoly, but excludes posts with #NSFW or #Lewd, as well as #Pokemon (because I have a separate column for pokemon pixel artwork & lowpoly specifically)

I have heard misskey and calckey have a sort of trending feed, but not quite algorithmic, but unsure completely.

[–] jaredwhite@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

As others have mentioned, between Mastodon's hashtag following and now Threadiverse communities, that's all I need to feel plugged into various topics I care about. I'm not sure what more a feed algorithm could do for me.

[–] Ragnell@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like the others point out, Hashtags. However, on Kbin you can try the microblog which will show you microblogs from the communities you follow... which includes mastodon posts on the hashtags that relate to those communities.

[–] Lily33@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't know that kbin microblogs also pull Mastodon posts by hashtags! That's a really nice feature.

BTW can Lemmy communities also have tags? None of the ones I subscribe to seem to have any...

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy doesn't support tags at the moment.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/317