I was searching for articles on Google Translate with SearX (serx.cf) and then, when I open the Mastodon Federated timeline (mastodon.la), guess what, a post about Google Translate! Talking about how humans should translate and not machines, the exact same topic. Can’t believe I haven’t escaped this bullshit with Mastodon. Live and learn.

  • obbeelOP
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    3 years ago

    So, the fedi tracker in Mastodon says there are 3 million mastodon accounts. Lets say there are 5000 posts each minute. That is, 1 in 600 users are posting every minute. The machine is picking 3 out of those 5000 posts to show to me. That is somewhere near 0,05% chance of me seeing a post that happens each minute. I perfectly trust someone in 3000000 people is thinking about the same topic as me, even though that is a weird coincidence that’s worth thinking about. What I don’t believe is the machine picking exactly that post to show me in the federated timeline without manipulation (adjustments to tracking).