Great visualization of information propagation by @randomwalker!
He explains how information arrives in your feed, and what the effect thereof.
This is critical to understanding how relevancy algorithms work, and what makes Mastodon different from Big Social.
More reading: https://knightcolumbia.org/content/understanding-social-media-recommendation-algorithms
@atomicpoet This is why I use RSS feed readers that will surface the newest uploaded YouTube video from someone I'm interested in.