What about the posts with the most comments that day instead?
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Comments are a better indicator than likes, sure, but it still doesn’t address the issue of a client having to make a somewhat arbitrary decision on what users get to see. Most will agree on basic ground truths: spam is bad; porn is bad; gratuitous violence is bad. Create those filters and give users the option to turn them on. Beyond that, it become a subjective and arbitrary algorithm, IMO
Fair, but for users who want to find interesting new people to follow or posts that are getting lots of activity that they might find interesting, what would you say is the best way to do that without them having to wade through a firehose global feed?
The non-algorithmic way would be: if those users are following enough high-signal accounts, the other interesting posts they might be missing will appear in their TL through reposts
Exactly this, and/or through the posts & replies tab, which is exactly how I found this interesting conversation. Gm gents. Shaka