Thanks. The funny thing is that I wrote this post on 3 July. I have no idea why it’s only appearing on people’s timelines today (but I’ll take it :)).
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Reality is weird and our influence is minimal. Great to hear, that sometimes old posts get a revival, when they hit a nerve ;)
💯 I enjoy “revivals". Clients should build better features so that users can catch up with their followers content and maybe show a random old post in your feed once in a while. It certainly improves discoverability.
No I am for lowest possible algorythms. 100% user control. Scroll through someones timeline and you get what you want ;)
We can have both (although I don’t want algorithms by default myself either). Scrolling through everyone’s timelines individually is quite time-consuming. I definitely miss a Fedilab-like “catch up” feature where my feeds are kept exactly where I left off so I can simply come back; or click twice to “skip” and go straight to the top of the feed. Feeds are still linear, but IMO, this is a much better user experience.
Nostur has something like this, but I don’t have an iPhone and I really don’t like social media scrolling on macOS. This is definitely something I’d like to see on Amethyst and similar mobile clients.
I rather like when there is consistancy within a feed. So either I have a feed that displays most liked past notes, most zapped past notes, most commented past notes or it is chronically.
I feel something else would rather confuse me. But may I will learn that your idea is better that what I imagine. I just do not see how there could be a good random algorythm without taking away my freedom.