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Algorithmic timelines have objective advantages: they can keep the most frequent posters from drowning everyone else. That's of course not to say they aren't m
by kace91 6y ago
Algorithmic timelines have objective advantages: they can keep the most frequent posters from drowning everyone else.
That's of course not to say they aren't maliciously misused.
- colecut 6y agothe ability to easily filter/unfilter users from my feed is a much more user-friendly solution to that problem.
- RandallBrown 6y agoIt's not that simple is it? I want to see the photos my crazy aunt posts of her family and dogs, but I would love to not see the alt-right political memes she also posts. I can do this already to some extent by simply blocking certain sources that she's reposting from. It's harder to do when the content is copied and pasted.
- colecut 6y agoI would rather deal with the occasional offputting post than with the completely non-chronological mess FB has now that will decide which friends' posts I don't see at all seemingly arbitrarily. Right now I deal with both.
- Nextgrid 6y agoIf someone goes on a racist rant you can quickly scroll past that entire streak with a chronological timeline. With an algorithmic one it's not so easy.