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Inside the Algorithms Facebook and Twitter Use to Build the Perfect Feed

18 points by ghosh 13y ago

samstave 13y ago
Surely this is a joke, the FB feed is far from perfect, unless the only criteria used is "does it vertically scroll"
- suyash 13y ago
  Quality and Engagement wise, FB feed is worse than Twitter IMHO.
bluetidepro 13y ago
As soon as I read "Build the Perfect Feed" I audible laughed at the link bait title. This may be an article inside their algorithm (which in fact, is probably interesting), but how can you honestly say it's "Perfect" when clearly a lot of people openly complain about how poor it is?
molecule 13y ago
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zby 13y ago
You'll never have one feed perfect for everyone. What we need is to decentralize the social network back - and let everyone control what his node does - what information is taken from in-feeds, what is presented to the user and what information is passed to out-feeds. I call that social routing.
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breakyerself 13y ago
The Facebook feed is garbage. I think a drunk narwhal is just grabbing crap (2/3 of which are embedded ads) and throwing it up there. When I'm on the mobile site I only get about a page and a half down before it just starts repeating the same 5 things over and over. I can't believe a site with so much money is so freaking broken. Don't even get me started on how hard it is to have a coherent discussion in the comments section of a post.
- lutusp 13y ago
  > I can't believe a site with so much money is so freaking broken. But it's broken by design. The Facebook people believe their followers will accept anything they do without bailing out, and events prove them right. Even you continued to scroll through the garbage -- "When I'm on the mobile site I only get about a page and a half down before it just starts repeating the same 5 things over and over" -- without canceling your Facebook subscription, without voting with your feet, without doing anything but complain about it. > Don't even get me started on how hard it is to have a coherent discussion in the comments section of a post. Maybe a social medium other than Facebook deserves your level of loyalty and energy.
  - breakyerself 13y ago
    So many choices. What was I thinking?

18 points by ghosh 13y ago

samstave 13y ago

Surely this is a joke, the FB feed is far from perfect, unless the only criteria used is "does it vertically scroll"

suyash 13y ago
Quality and Engagement wise, FB feed is worse than Twitter IMHO.

bluetidepro 13y ago

As soon as I read "Build the Perfect Feed" I audible laughed at the link bait title. This may be an article inside their algorithm (which in fact, is probably interesting), but how can you honestly say it's "Perfect" when clearly a lot of people openly complain about how poor it is?

molecule 13y ago

... ORDER BY created_at DESC;

zby 13y ago

You'll never have one feed perfect for everyone. What we need is to decentralize the social network back - and let everyone control what his node does - what information is taken from in-feeds, what is presented to the user and what information is passed to out-feeds. I call that social routing.

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breakyerself 13y ago

The Facebook feed is garbage. I think a drunk narwhal is just grabbing crap (2/3 of which are embedded ads) and throwing it up there. When I'm on the mobile site I only get about a page and a half down before it just starts repeating the same 5 things over and over. I can't believe a site with so much money is so freaking broken. Don't even get me started on how hard it is to have a coherent discussion in the comments section of a post.

lutusp 13y ago
> I can't believe a site with so much money is so freaking broken. But it's broken by design. The Facebook people believe their followers will accept anything they do without bailing out, and events prove them right. Even you continued to scroll through the garbage -- "When I'm on the mobile site I only get about a page and a half down before it just starts repeating the same 5 things over and over" -- without canceling your Facebook subscription, without voting with your feet, without doing anything but complain about it. > Don't even get me started on how hard it is to have a coherent discussion in the comments section of a post. Maybe a social medium other than Facebook deserves your level of loyalty and energy.
- breakyerself 13y ago
  So many choices. What was I thinking?