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?
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@ilumium @CathyTuttle @nw It probably has it's upsides but the main feed is also not the only way to get posts (though, you might miss a fair bit of them).
