@maikelMaikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 certainly not an utopia. In a chain of links weaving a social fabric 😃 I will pass on this post quote..
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116159153490621069
> My feed is very carefully curated, and yet it still filters in.
Yes, the tools we have can be much improved to offer more support for Personal social networking.
@smallcircles🫧 socialcoding.. the problems are
1. Pics of Trump face with no trump text, so filters don't work.
2. Pics of Elon face with...see point 1. Like that all other US rage-producing club of billionaires or MAGAs.
3. Using tags as "USpol" requires manual intervention, nobody does.
4. Mastodon follows BOOSTS of whoever you add by default, instead of making those opt-in
5. People don't use alt-text so filters at least filter Trump face becaus eof the alt-text.
6. The worst one: people use other names instead to call them so filters don't work.
What commercial media gets right:
1. They have the power to guess...
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