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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
by grishka 4y 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 4y agoOne of those will be chronological. That's still an algorithm...
- sbarre 4y agoThe 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".