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@bea i wanna stream it again next week! i'm probably too dumb to finish it myself

alright i just found out that hiveswap was made in unity, which only makes the whole two-volume-sliders-in-the-mixer thing even MORE baffling

how do you even DO that

@enkiv2 both but especially the second one

@enkiv2 that sounds needlessly complicated and also bad

I think maybe the solution to this problem is to base recommendations on how many of your friends follow *and are followed back* by someone. there's probably also systemic issues with that, though. it might just lead to like, insular cliques for instance, though i think that's better than the clumping of social capital you get with the old model

@wxcafe oh no its ok!!

@wxcafe yeah I don't think that's a good solution for a federated system, plus inferring facts about me based on my extremely good posts is gross

the best indicator of whether or not i'll like someone is if my friends are friends with that person. the problem with this approach, though, is that sites structured like twitter and mastodon don't track *friends*, they track *followers*, and interpreting following as friendship leads to this awful one-sided clumping behavior where the people that get recommended are people that have a lot of followers, so they get more followers, so they're recommended more, etc

i think the fundamental issue with a feature like themed lists/groups for suggesting followers is that what you like or do has, in my experience, very little to do with what kind of person you are or if I'll like hanging out with you. I like game development & indie music, but guess what, there's a significant contingent of people who also like those things who are just fucking terrible.

@TipsyTentacle my new mastodon instance trains.club

i fuckin love trains

i just noticed that the boards of canada lp i got from the pbs idea channel set has some like torn bits on the back from when it was taken off the record wall and i'm having a bit of a moment

god i love that wonderful dumb youtube show so much

@er1n YEEAHHH AND ITS EXTREMELY FUCKING GOOD

god. it's such a good album.

nancy whang's bridge part in "other voices" on the new lcd soundsystem album is fucking transcendent

@HTHR really takin advantage of the character limit

@bea i know más to had follow recs but eugen disabled them shortly after the Anime Marxist Explosion of October 2016 for performance reasons

i definitely like the site better without them tbh, follow recs encourage a clumping of popularity im not a fan of

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