schnurrito comments on Instagram chief thinks a chronological feed is 'much worse' and says the quiet part out loud

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

So, how would your ideal social media platform decide what to show to the user in what priority?

I use Mastodon with a chronological feed and it works very well for me. I check it every few hours or even minutes during waking hours (depending on how bored I am) and get a huge share of my news that way. Most of my activity here on Lemmy is posting articles I discover through that exact feed.

But of course, the context here is a certain bill introduced in Australia, to which the correct response would be more similar to this article: https://www.freezenet.ca/what-the-media-didnt-tell-you-about-the-australian-off-switch-bill/

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[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

Ideally the ranking algorithm would be transparent (open-source) and customizable. I DO think it should be regulated, but I don't think mandating chronological sorting is a reasonable solution.

There should also be a way to easily sort things. Bluesky has a custom feed system, and I think Mastodon does too. I'm not a huge user of either so I'm not sure which is better. But ideally I would NOT have a mix of news, politics, art, friends, family, etc. That's probably why I prefer Lemmy's community-centered format to most social media's account-centered format.

Here on Lemmy, I don't typically use "new". My subscribed communities are low-traffic enough that I suppose I could without losing my mind, but "hot" or "active" become better as activity increases.

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