The featured feed should load just by tapping on "featured" — if it's not working that may mean that all your relays dropped the connection. They should auto-reconnect (with exponential backoff as to not spam relays :D) but I did notice in testing that occasionally they would just get dropped. It seems to happen on network change, like if you're on mobile data and then you switch to wifi. Anyway if that happens again try refreshing the app. I will also look into this more :)
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thank you. Sorry, what I meant was, what's the algo for features ? What factors do you take into consideration ?
Right now “featured” is just the most popular accounts (as defined by number of followers) but obviously that isn’t a long term solution because it creates positive feedback where accounts that already have visibility get even more. A much better idea is to derive the list of featured accounts is from hard-to-fake metrics. Working on that now.
Thanks for explaining, Stuart. I'd reckon this will not be an easy one to figure out as everyone wants to stay out of everything bad twitter algo had to offer. However, one thing i found useful was the 'topic of interest', and maybe this might benefit you among your other hard-to-fake metrics.