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Snapchats are surprisingly better than alternatives nowadays. I personally really dislike the new feeds by popularity route that services are adopting, and Sna
by spike021 10y ago
Snapchats are surprisingly better than alternatives nowadays.
I personally really dislike the new feeds by popularity route that services are adopting, and Snapchat's Stories are great because I can find a friend's feed for the day and just catch up immediately, rather than having to either dig and dig until a feed thinks a particular post is important, etc.
- tedmiston 10y agoI also find it much easier to ignore the uninteresting people, or rather, people that tend to post 5+ times per day than it is on Facebook.
- spike021 10y agoYeah. Just because a plethora of people like someone's post doesn't mean that I will, but with many new feeds that kind of post would be prioritized over something with fewer likes/comments that I would actually want to see.
- quotemstr 10y ago> dig and dig until a feed thinks a particular post is important, etc. Can't you just go directly to that friend's timeline?
- spike021 10y agoSure, if you want to. But I'd rather just see how things are going with people in general through the day, not one or two in particular. Right now there are feeds I've seen where I don't even see today's updates at all because their algorithms deem previous days' posts more important.
- quotemstr 10y agoSometimes older posts are more important though. What if your friend got married yesterday and posted a toilet paper joke today? I've honestly never understood the anti algorithmic feed position.
- spike021 10y agoI may not care enough about a neighbor/classmate/coworker getting married yesterday, whereas I may care about them posting about something about street cleaning / the exam today / debugging fixing the tough problem they ran into today. I don't know that a third-party can assign a value of importance when it can be so arbitrary.
- quotemstr 10y agoWhen services switch to algorithmic timelines, engagement incresses massively. If this result isn't an indication that "a third party can assign a value of importance", I don't know what is. What people say they want and what their behavior shows that they want aren't necessarily the same thing. Watch what users do, not what they say.