mastodon admin meta, bad
So our illustrious dictator has snuck a fun little piece of Twitterization into the 4.0.0 mastodon release notes.
“Add reputation and followers score to SQL-only account search”.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19251
This means accounts will rank higher in a non-elasticsearch search if they have more followers and boosts. Or a clout-chasing bonus, if you prefer.
Fuck this shit right outta here.
re: mastodon admin meta, bad
@s0 theres no algorithm
re: mastodon admin meta, bad
@s0 anyway this seems like a normal ux affordance (a user is more likely to be looking for a popular account) & i don't mind it really
re: mastodon admin meta, bad
@joepie91 @bun exactly. Worse is often better — as we’ve seen with the total decline of web search engines