I feel like the should-our-timelines-have-recommendations debate is a bit out of control. Do I want to have recommendations in my timeline? No. Would I love to have a recommended tab that I could ignore or use if I wanted? Yes. Discoverability is a lot lower on Mastodon. I had a lot of great accounts recommended to me on Twitter that I ended up following for a long time.
Maybe a recommendations engine could even be a service by a third party outside Mastodon. I dunno.
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