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   John Francis (johnefrancis@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 11:10:44 JST John Francis

   #mastodon follow suggestions are terrible. It recommends accounts with no monthly activity. It also really likes accounts that have 15k followers but only follow 80. It calls these "personalized suggestions". Most of these lopsided accounts have lots of posts that match my post filters.

   Not great. The perils of algorithms.

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 11:13:43 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @johnefrancis yeah...the biggest issues aren't even seen by the normal user.

     The "suggestions" can be manipulated to show specific people individually. Furthermore, they can't be changed as a whole or "refreshed" to say 'try again, these suggestions suck!'🤦♂️

     I'm on a single user instance and have had the same suggestions for a year now.

     The fact that an admin can add anyone to the suggestion pool is ridiculous.😑