I don't think it is. But nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj abused the algo to trend on purpose to make a point. Then primal manually banned him from trending and nostr blew up about muh censorship. The point is an open source algo is ripe for gaming it. Openly publicizing the algo would just lead to even more people gaming it.
Algos are pointless. They will be found out and games by those paying attention until the developers inevitably have to change it to prevent it being gamed.
This is precisely why yt videos change in format. The algo changes and creators change content to chase the algo, rather than focusing on the actual content.
ie. Algos are mostly noise.
sorting by newest is an algo.
sorting by most zaps is an algo.
tons of value in your response, but hating on algos just seems like a witch hunt to me.
In time different clients will have different "trending" algos that we can choose from. I hope all are open source so that we all have equal ability to "game them"
There's a big difference between a centraly decided algorithm and a sort list. I don't hate algos. I just think most perpetuate noise.
what do we want?
BETTER ALGOS!
That's all I'm getting at and I think we agree. hopefully we can choose the ALGOS we subscribe to at some point whether it be inter or intra client.
algo openness would be key to helping us decide. if there are more "trending" algo options, gaming one of them means less
