Just realised that on Mastodon, boosting *is* the algorithm.
There's no code trying to cleverly show me stuff it reckons I'd be into, based on what my contacts are into, instead my contacts are saying "I like this, I bet my contacts would like it too" and that is way smarter than any algorithm.
Thank you, boosters!
nostr:npub19lt4284mghqxekzm6n5njxurnxrxhqhrva2leusdsuu5ja5jeycq66qfjk Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series. Set in an alternate 1985 in a world where literature is extremely important in popular culture, and kind of alive.
I don't really want to give more away or it'll spoil the surprises tbh! In the first book, it helps to have read Jane Eyre already...
nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 yup. it gets a bit worst-of-the-forum-era sometimes.
nostr:npub1jc0sh3wdfut8hmnmqy8l4smqhnq0y32mn5536mdn9wtsac5geynslnsldg nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 I don't think these people ever went away, but twitter was such an algorithmic firehose that either those replies didn't always surface for people with many many followers, or the reply guys were put off by there already being a flood of replies.
There we go, there's my womansplaining on the matter 🙃
nostr:npub19lt4284mghqxekzm6n5njxurnxrxhqhrva2leusdsuu5ja5jeycq66qfjk can't you transfer anyway? The amount you've renewed already usually comes with...
I wish there was an easy way to search for my own Masto posts that are over 400ch long. Especially when I do a sequence of them in response to an OP. They'd probably make semi decent blog posts...