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The best feed is the chronological, non-algorithmic feed.
by baggy_trough 5y ago
The best feed is the chronological, non-algorithmic feed.
- jmull 5y agoAn unmoderated chronological feed would simply be a running list of every tweet from every one. A screen full of this feed would just be tweets made at the moment the data for the screen refresh was fetched. Is that what you or anyone wants?
- baggy_trough 5y agoYes, of the people I choose to follow.
- badwolf 5y agoYes. This is exactly what I want. It's not a global feed of every twitter in existence, it's a feed of accounts that you proactively choose to follow.
- jmull 5y agoHow/where does discovery happen?
- baggy_trough 5y agoAs a pull, not a push. Meaning, in the very beginning, from off the chronological feed. Later, from following conversations of follows to new interesting accounts.
- jmull 5y agoI suppose you can ditch twitter and switch to reddit.
- baggy_trough 5y agoI don't understand what that has to do with my comment.
- celdon25 5y agoI still would prefer that to what is currently there.
- jeffbee 5y agoTruly do not understand this point of view. The strictly chronological presentation is too easy to flood with unwanted posts.
- mulmen 5y agoSimple solution, unfollow the spammers.
- baggy_trough 5y agoI choose people to follow. If somebody is flooding my feed more than I like, then I unfollow them. Truly do not understand why anyone would want it to work differently other than marketers.
- jeffbee 5y agoBut it's not spam. If fifty people you follow retweet the same popular post, you do not want to see it fifty-one times. You want to see it once, and you want it ranked highly because everyone you follow thinks it's an important post. It's a form of crowdsourcing from a curated group of contributors. The chonological view cannot accommodate.
- mulmen 5y agoThat’s more of a problem with Twitter’s design. I don’t want to see any “retweets”. If someone I care about replies to something then (optionally!) show me their reply. If I find that compelling I can follow the primary source. I do not care about regurgitated content.
- baggy_trough 5y agoAgain, I’ll control that by curating my own follow set. I don’t need some algorithm to crowdsource for me. That’s the last thing I want.
- NineStarPoint 5y agoYou could unfollow the people who spam you with unwanted posts. I find strictly chronological feeds to increase the control I have over what I see by not prioritizing the more popular posts of those I follow. It also makes it much easier to say “I’ve caught up to where I was last time, good time to stop scrolling”. (Parts of a website that center around discovering new content do need curation for the reason you mentioned, but content discovery is to me not the primary purpose of twitter style sites) Chronological presentation is less useful for serving advertisements though, so I don’t expect it to show up very often.
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoThat only works for daily addicts. Otherwise, the low-volume accounts get lost in all the fast-posting people.