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   Olivier Simard-Casanova 🦋 (o_simardcasanova@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 08:46:34 JST Olivier Simard-Casanova 🦋

   It’s baffling how consistently bad #Threads’ algorithm is

   On top of a shockingly low quality coming from a company with as much resources as #Meta, the real issue is the model of its algorithm itself: it’s an opaque, one-size-fits-all algorithm. It’s a completely outdated model.

   As #Bluesky shows, and #Mastodon to a lesser extent (with followed hashtags), it’s possible to give users proper control over *their* timeline

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     Olivier Simard-Casanova 🦋 (o_simardcasanova@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 08:46:33 JST Olivier Simard-Casanova 🦋

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     Both #Bluesky and #Mastodon have a much smaller user base compared to #Threads and yet, it’s a lot easier to find content that fits with my interests on both platforms than on Threads

     Reason is simple: Bluesky and Mastodon gives me control, whereas on Threads I need to do some black magic and whatnot to try to tell the algorithm I want to see more of this, or less of that

     For the user, it’s tiring and unfun. Which is also bad for Meta itself!

     Once again, it’s a very outdated model

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     Tim Chambers repeated this.
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     Roni Laukkarinen (rolle@mementomori.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 08:46:33 JST Roni Laukkarinen

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     @o_simardcasanova That’s why I’m excited about the fact we will be able to follow Threads users from Mastodon this year.