Mastodon is pretty great but it’s still corrupted because #gaza (or #genocide) never shows up as trending, even though #gaza is always the number one trending # on this platform.
This omission is white supremacy in action. Palestinian lives matter. Even in this beautiful anarchist place, we can’t escape from the white supremacy that is around us all the time.
Surely that’s just part of the code on each instance? If there were a bias it would have to be present there.
I don’t use any kind of platform besides this site but unless there’s some kind of global analytics system run by somebody affiliated with Mastodon that every instance is set to reference by default I don’t know how this would be possible.
The main mastodon dev has some pretty weird opinions so it could be possible they’ve hidden some implicit bias in the trending function. It would be interesting to see analysis of behavior across other activitypub implementations.
Surely that’s just part of the code on each instance? If there were a bias it would have to be present there.
I don’t use any kind of platform besides this site but unless there’s some kind of global analytics system run by somebody affiliated with Mastodon that every instance is set to reference by default I don’t know how this would be possible.
The main mastodon dev has some pretty weird opinions so it could be possible they’ve hidden some implicit bias in the trending function. It would be interesting to see analysis of behavior across other activitypub implementations.