(fallen london stamps by I am admittedly kind of baffled at how many people are struggling to use the website without an algorithm/suggestions thing, but I think a big part of it is that I never was the target audience for Algorithmic social media?
even when I did have a Twitter, my activity consisted almost solely of trawling the plural hashtags, reading the shitposts of friends I knew from elsewhere, and shitposting into the void. (so much shitposting!) I was just not interested in having a dash full of Content unless it was the VERY SPECIFIC content I already had ways of finding, and so Suggestions were almost always more noise than signal
(I also don't have any concept of "mutuals" as a meaningful social thing, as someone who doesn't even follow all of my friends because their stuff isn't Exactly what I want on my feed, and also as someone who likes to be free to follow and then unfollow for whatever reason without it being seen as A Personal Thing. I like the links feature overall, but I am slightly peeved that its privacy granularity thing is based upon following*! there are some people I follow who I don't trust and some people I don't follow who I trust. these are not the saaaaame)
(*I know they're working on expanding this, at least)
