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> forcefully shoving recommended content from unknown people down their throats. They just want a chronological timeline of posts made by people they explicitly

> forcefully shoving recommended content from unknown people down their throats. They just want a chronological timeline of posts made by people they explicitly followed So... You're saying you like AT Protocol/Bluesky then? Because if that's what you're trying to say, your post kind of reads like you don't like it, but then what you want is exactly what they are trying to provide...

grishka 3y ago
My understanding from this and earlier blog posts is that they want an algorithmic timeline where people can choose their algorithm. Those "feed generators" are the pluggable algorithms they promised and they do need global indexes (BGS's) to be able to inject out-of-network content to your feed. It all checks out. Yes you can get a chronological feed of accounts you follow, but that seemingly isn't what they see as the most important use case.
- CodexArcana 3y ago
  One of those will be chronological. That's still an algorithm...
- sbarre 3y ago
  The beauty of this being decentralized and open source is that, in theory, there would be a large number of possible algorithms (including "no algorithm") for users to choose from. There's an earlier blog post that talks about the "algorithm marketplace" that is worth looking up. I don't think this team "sees" any use cases for sorting feeds right now. In the current beta there are two feeds, your followers which is chronological (and the default) and "What's Hot" which is a haphazard very much placeholder timeline of the "most interacted with" posts, and I think that just means "13 likes or more, then chronological" at the moment. It's super basic and not at all the priority for them. From all I've seen in my time in the beta, the most important use case they are working towards is "let everyone pick their own way of sorting/filtering/moderating their timeline".

grishka 3y ago

My understanding from this and earlier blog posts is that they want an algorithmic timeline where people can choose their algorithm. Those "feed generators" are the pluggable algorithms they promised and they do need global indexes (BGS's) to be able to inject out-of-network content to your feed. It all checks out. Yes you can get a chronological feed of accounts you follow, but that seemingly isn't what they see as the most important use case.

CodexArcana 3y ago
One of those will be chronological. That's still an algorithm...
sbarre 3y ago
The beauty of this being decentralized and open source is that, in theory, there would be a large number of possible algorithms (including "no algorithm") for users to choose from. There's an earlier blog post that talks about the "algorithm marketplace" that is worth looking up. I don't think this team "sees" any use cases for sorting feeds right now. In the current beta there are two feeds, your followers which is chronological (and the default) and "What's Hot" which is a haphazard very much placeholder timeline of the "most interacted with" posts, and I think that just means "13 likes or more, then chronological" at the moment. It's super basic and not at all the priority for them. From all I've seen in my time in the beta, the most important use case they are working towards is "let everyone pick their own way of sorting/filtering/moderating their timeline".