A thoughtful blog post from Vlad Campos about a sort of “paradox” with Micro.blog’s integration with the fediverse. Most software design is a series of tradeoffs, and while imperfect I think the decisions we’ve made are right for Micro.blog. But we can evolve too… Trying to keep an open mind.
@vladcampos I think there are side effects from like/follower counts aside from the algorithms, but I agree the algorithms are a big problem. What’s interesting is that when platforms have the data, they are inevitably tempted to make new algorithms with that data. “We might as well show which users or posts are popular!”