

It’s got an inbox and a spam folder and I use the client to subscribe to RSS feeds. Email and lemmy have more in common than they have differences.
You’re using an open source platform bud, you have complete control over your ‘algorithmic’ feed. People just seem to want control over other people’s feeds, too.
It doesn’t ‘personalize’ it for you though, you do that for yourself
All the default sorting algorithms do is sort by basic global metrics like time and activity - anything else is done by the user (blocking, subscribing, ect) and the instance (federation or banning).
People misunderstand just how broad a term ‘algorithm’ actually is.