It's gotten MUCH better! 🤞 It's showing as much relevant "for you" stuff as the old "For you" by skygaze.io used to + moderate amount of "discover" posts. I was thinking to create something like "My Cluster+/Supercluster+" that will give similar wider reach experience and now I don't have to 😊.

yeah, the goal is to create one really solid algorithm that can deliver a good experience for what people expect out of a twitter-like timeline, so we can suggest it as the default to new users before they start exploring custom feeds

Yes. A good feed like that is essential to user retention. I've seen too many people join from Xitter, then say "timeline empty and boring" and leave before I had a chance to offer them a custom feed that works and that there's actually a very lively community they might want to engage with.

exactly what we want to fix!

Hey, just out of curiosity, is following hashtags something that you've been considering? (I think not enough people use hashtags here yet for this to be useful, but I know it's something that people used to Mastodon ask about) Also btw, are Tumblr-style external hashtags coming someday finally? :D