Why I hate reverse chronological feeds and, in some ways, love algorithms:
There are a few ppl for whom I want to see almost all of what they post, but a huge number of ppl for whom I don’t want to see most of what they post but very much want to see some sizable minority of their posts, most relevant to me
I could waste my life carefully curating a feed with hashtags to get the latter while following only the former…Or an algorithm that can see exactly what I like can give me a hand
@wrigleyfield I find algorithmic timelines are always trying to infer too much about my preferences from non-interactions, and end up hiding stuff from people whose content I want to see but don’t have strong opinions about
@wrigleyfield which isn’t to say they are bad in principle, I’m just very opinionated about how they should work (also don’t want an algorithm that promotes echo chamber behavior of only showing things I agree with), and I prefer no algorithm to bad algorithm
@wrigleyfield it’s much easier to scroll over a bunch of content I don’t care about than to remember to manually search for life updates of people who’ve gone missing from the feed because the algorithm decided I didn’t care about them
