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People say Bytedance (Tiktok) has an excellent recommendation system, better at adjusting to interest changes than the other platforms. Personally I always go

• krainboltgreene 5y ago
  As far as I know the experts say this is because the medium. Twitter has no idea what tweet you're eyeballing because there are 3-20 tweets on your view screen. Tiktok is very aware of what you stopped caring about, because it's no longer being viewed.
• ekianjo 5y ago
  > I am curious what an open algorithm could mean in practice... Could be a series of different algorithms to choose from, such as: - a feed about the people you follow, ordered by the popularity of their posts among their own followers - a feed about the people you follow, focusing on people who post least often and tend to be under-represented on a typical chronological timeline. - an algorithm to suggest topics or other people to follow, based on other similar profiles to yours. - a feed to focus on newer accounts instead of established accounts... etc. the sky is the limit. You can then imagine a UI that goes with it to switch from one algorithm to the next so that you don't waste your time scrolling down.