@kissane the placefulness of Mastodon and the extended microblogverse is its greatest flaw IMHO.

Instead of using AP servers as post-office relays for our digital letters, we’ve effectively been moved to *live inside* the post offices just to make it easier for the servers to send letters on our behalf.

The discussion groups of the threadiverse however do make sense as places we can *visit* with our independent identities.

I need separation between my place of living and place of discourse.

@bnewbold yeah I like that. Though as long as the algorithms are opt-in and composable, it’s all good really. I just don’t want any surprises in the ordering of my feed, covertly introduced by obfuscated algorithms.

Even a fairly magical sorting mechanism is fine as long as I get to explicitly flip the switch and mindfully observe its impact.

Everything works differently when the user is transparently included in the entire loop. I could happily A/B-day test my enjoyment of different configs.