Gregory's Server@antimnguyen Did you mean "There's no *evil black box* algorithm here"?
I know it sounds pedantic but at least within tech spaces I feel we should not use the word "algorithm" like the most people use the word "system", i.e. as something nebulous, bad, and, in the case of the former word, as something that should be avoided or even eradicated.
@gabri
I don't think that algorithms are inherently evil. In an ideal world, I would like to have an algorithmic method that is highly controllable by the end-user. It is simply that many for-profit platforms have used targeted advertising as a monetization method.
I don't think it is inaccurate to mirror Mastodon's statements that they don't use suggestion algorithms. But not having them means that users have to do more work to see the content they want. That is what I wanted to communicate.