Discovery and recommendations on a photo sharing platform is quite different than on a microblogging platform.

Text is easier to understand, but harder to grab attention

Photos are prettier and more attention grabbing, but harder to understand

By using ML (on device) and manual tagging (captions, hashtags, alttext) we can combine the best of both worlds and use the additional context of photos and videos to link them and provide a better user experience with more relevant content. #pixelfed