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Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media

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190 points amichail | 4 comments | 20 Nov 24 12:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.829s | source
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giancarlostoro ◴[20 Nov 24 14:51 UTC] No.42194385[source]▶
I really dont understand why we cannot just go back to chronological as a default. This is how I use X/Twitter, and anything else that lets me just go chronological.
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1. M04R_PYL0N5 ◴[20 Nov 24 14:55 UTC] No.42194408[source]▶
Agreed. They kind of just overthought the experience to try to game engagement and clicks. Chronological should be the default, anything else should be up to the user but I know that doesn't quite make money for the apps the same way...
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2. Spivak ◴[20 Nov 24 14:58 UTC] No.42194438[source]▶
TIL priority inbox is trying to keep me in Gmail longer.

I could understand feeding people rage-bait content as a method of false engagement but these are people you followed. Most liked/boosted/retweeted among the people you want updates from seems ideal.

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3. ruined ◴[20 Nov 24 15:00 UTC] No.42194466[source]▶
edit:n/t
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4. JumpCrisscross ◴[20 Nov 24 15:01 UTC] No.42194477{3}[source]▶
A better analogy would have been spam filters.