https://social.lot23.com/@jon/109372257422277945
2/ As a Mastodon user, you're waaaaaay more likely than the average user to love reverse-chron with no algorithm. It's one of the main selling points for Mastodon!
But it's not rooted in what we saw in seemingly hundreds of different #designresearch findings.
The reason Twitter almost died so many times at the start is that normal people aren't looking for an IRC or RSS experience. So people joined, got frustrated, and left.
It took THREE YEARS to turn users into "healthy users." That's bad.