Zach Leatherman :11ty: on Nostr: After over a year of using Mastodon almost exclusively for social media—it’s ...

After over a year of using Mastodon almost exclusively for social media—it’s *still* a shock to go back to visit an algorithmically-driven social network.

Scrolling and reading on other sites feels like eating a candy bar while drinking a soda—the candy bar has very little flavor—your taste buds are already overloaded by sugar.

And yet sugar is the algorithmically incentivized form of content, so sugary posts are the only type that gets traction.