James Gleick on Nostr: Lacking an algorithm, we on Mastodon can certainly divide ourselves into warring ...
Lacking an algorithm, we on Mastodon can certainly divide ourselves into warring camps by choosing whom we follow and, as you say, our choice of admin can be a part of that process.
But I don’t see how admins can have anything like the kind of motivation or power granted to the algorithms in commercial social media. (2/2)
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