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Why is my news feed schizophrenic?


@Eugen Rochko

My news feed on Mastadon/Fediverse has a split personality. Sometimes the feed is filled with a certain profile of people (teenager/cutesy/twee/animal pictures/lefty) sometimes another (more right/way older/etc). It looks like there's a bot or a series of bots switching between two sets of k means clustered sets of profiles and I have no idea how this is happening or a way to tailor what I want to see. How is the set of posts determined?

If this turns out to be algorithmically determined again like on Facebook I'm abandoning ship.