Why user-level blocking of Meta does not solve the problem of your feed becoming dominated by the Meta algorithm.

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Defederate Meta@fedia.io · 3 years ago

I plead my case to Mastodon’s lead dev @Gargron here: https://mstdn.patatas.ca/@smallpatatas/110516124221635618

tl;dr - Meta will suck the Fediverse into its algorithmic orbit based on sheer size alone, unless we organize a large-scale Fediblock / defederation.

Curious to hear what people think.

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