#BlackMastodon #WhoToFollow #Algorithm
I just checked out the "Who to follow" (feature that just appeared for me on my Mastodon (web) screen).
Very nice people, and I even added several. But the whiteness of "Who to follow" is telling me who's here... or does it tell me my own bias about who I'm following... or both?
Anyone...? Bueller?
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I'm not sure how to fix this. On LinkedIn I was able to search specifically for Black people in my wider network in order to balance my follows. There doesn't appear to be any way to do that on Mastodon.
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I think it's a waste to recommend we follow people who haven't been active for [x months] though. (We can quibble over the value of x...)
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