Those recommendation systems have lots of problems, I agree, especially if they optimize for monetary benefit of the platform above all else.
But you need them if you want to have interesting stuff recommended, simple as that. I can’t (and have no interest to) read every Mastodon post ever, same for Lemmy. And I admit it, I don’t even want to read every post my friends make.
Mastodon feels like a torrent of random unrelated comments drowing out anything that might be interesting. I tried it, I don’t see any value in it. Even for following friends it’s unusable, there is the one that posts three times a day and the one that posts once every three weeks, there is no way to ever see one of his posts, unless I specifically go to his profile to look. I’ve given up on Mastodon.
Walking through the Sea of Japan is a bit of a challenge, though.
Please, for the love of god, cut back on your Emoji usage, my eyes are bleeding.
Lemmy needs “sort by controversial” for entertainment purposes.
Not because their grammar and phrasing improved suddenly?
Keepass + Syncthing is great, works also on phones.
Was supposed to be the cosmic phenomenon, but sure, why not.