• iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com
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      3 days ago

      Mastodon doesn’t have a recommendation engine really. If you’re getting lots of right wing lies and propaganda, then it’s because of who you chose to follow.

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        3 days ago

        I would imagine that somebody who is complaining about seeing a lot of right-wing propaganda is not somebody who would follow right-wing personalities. So if they are seen right-wing propaganda, that’s a problem.

        Perhaps it kind of just glitches out if you don’t follow anyone and just gives you anything.

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          13 hours ago

          Maybe the instance they chose has more right-wing folks than average, and so their local is skewed?

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              6 hours ago

              Sorry, my brain doesn’t know how to parse that.

              Mastodon isn’t an app or a site. It’s a social networking/microblogging service. So, you could use an app to access a Mastodon server, but that server wouldn’t be “the” Mastodon site, just “a” Mastodon server/instance.

              Maybe things were much more centralized in 2016, when you first tried it? I only joined last year.