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[TECHCRUNCH] BBC is testing being on Mastodon, says fediverse better fit for public purposes than Twitter or Threads
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    MrNatewood
    1y ago 100%

    What do you mean? Can you sort your mastodon feed in any way other than the equivalent of "new" in lemmy?

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    [TECHCRUNCH] BBC is testing being on Mastodon, says fediverse better fit for public purposes than Twitter or Threads
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    MrNatewood
    1y ago 100%

    I think the lack of a sorting algorithm in mastodon will make it hard for something like the BBC to gain a lot of followers. They put out so many posts that it will dominate any feed and overshadow friends that post once a day or so.

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  • For example: find everyone who wrote "journalist" in their profile description.

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    Literally the first thing you see.
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    MrNatewood
    1y ago 100%

    To be fair, usually a new user's first encounter with vim is it being the default editor when trying to edit a text file. If you open a specific file with it, you won't see the intro.

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