Mastodon vs Twitter. The public loves to put a VS between entities, as if things are always in opposition to each other’s. At Boiling Steam, we use both, or rather, I use both since I am responsible for the communications… Continue Reading →
In regards to algorithms, I always assumed there was no budget to do the extra processing and that’s probably true for the massive machine learning R&D projects that the likes of Twitter can fund, but if people really want open source algorithmic feeds then I’m sure they can be done under some computational cost.
I created Ecko, a fork of Mastodon, for the purpose of testing more adventurous ideas like this so created an issue based on this. Will be interesting to see if any code appears :)
In regards to algorithms, I always assumed there was no budget to do the extra processing and that’s probably true for the massive machine learning R&D projects that the likes of Twitter can fund, but if people really want open source algorithmic feeds then I’m sure they can be done under some computational cost.
I created Ecko, a fork of Mastodon, for the purpose of testing more adventurous ideas like this so created an issue based on this. Will be interesting to see if any code appears :)