Gregory's Server
I keep seeing people lamenting being unable to game a following together because of a lack of algorithm.
What you're saying resonates with me because I never wanted that. Never joined a commercially run, centralized, social network, because I never saw it as a "network".
#ActivityPub means, when I follow someone (or someone follows me), I'm building my own social network out of people I personally want to associate with.
That value is worth well more than an algorithm could provide.
@mousey maybe there are two steps: have a machine help me find interesting people that I wouldn’t easily find myself can be valuable. But it needs to be optional and get out of the way once the relationship is established.