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Can't we just go back to the era where the "feed" or the "wall" was just the posts of our friends / the people we follow sorted by posting date and not this hor
by pjerem 5y ago
Can't we just go back to the era where the "feed" or the "wall" was just the posts of our friends / the people we follow sorted by posting date and not this horrible algorithm made to show you infinite content ?
- ghaff 5y agoWhile very desirable that probably means that social media sites would have to be paid for at least in part by subscription fees.
- prepend 5y agoOr it means they reduce costs to what’s supportable by just inserting ads into RSS feeds every x items. This isn’t very likely. But it’s more likely than someone charging to aggregate IM statuses and put them in chronological order.
- d--b 5y agoUnless someone regulates it, no! Of course FB has no interest in that… One has to realize that FB is only optimizing for profit (and Zuck not going to jail). The only times they curbed was when bad PR was threatening their profits (and Mark’s freedom).
- josefresco 5y agoTwitter stays closer to this idea than Facebook. I basically see only posts from people I follow. I can even turn off retweets. Not perfect but it's not "endless".
- kkjjkgjjgg 5y agoYou only have to convince your friends to join you. Technically it is certainly still possible. I would expect most Fediverse applications don't have much of a ranking algorithm yet, or at least it should be configurable.
- samlevine 5y agoI do this in Twitter with lists. They don't make it obvious, but lists actually make it quite usable once you've set them up. Facebook (or Instagram) don't seem to have good options for this so for the most part I don't use them. Discord works chronologically, for now at least, and as long as it does I'll be happy to keep chatting with my friends there.
- dicknuckle 5y agoThere is a chronological feed in FB but i haven't used it in years and they make it harder and harder to use. I've also heard of it not working for days on end.