The absence of a curating #algorithm on #Mastodon has an (intended?) effect I only noticed since my newborn keeps me up at night:
Where #chronology rules the feed, I only ever see posts from my own (UTC+1) and adjacent #timezones.
Although I deliberately follow people elsewhere, like @CathyTuttle (based in UTC-8) or @nw (UTC+9), I hardly ever see their posts - except when my baby makes me scroll Mastodon at 3am in the morning.
Does that mean it's impossible to build a global audience here?
@ilumium it's probably harder, but I would not say "impossible". I do get out-of-timezone stuff but that relies on boosts across timezones. That's difficult.
So our interactions here are a bit more local, based on timezones, which is not necessarily all bad I think? But it is different, to be sure.
@ilumium I wonder if tools emerge at some point to help with that. For example, auto-boosting a toot 12h after publication, or such that it gets boosted into a specific timezone?
@laurenshof @rysiek @ilumium Probably not necessarily a bad thing, because privacy, although I guess it's inconvenient in this case.
