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

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190 points amichail | 3 comments | 20 Nov 24 12:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.52s | 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. schnable ◴[20 Nov 24 14:59 UTC] No.42194454[source]▶
So that it's different when you open the app every 15 minutes.
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2. JoshTriplett ◴[20 Nov 24 15:03 UTC] No.42194492[source]▶
This is, simultaneously, the reason why social networks want to use non-chronological timelines, and exactly the reason to use chronological timelines: so that it discourages perpetual usage.

On Fediverse, I can open the page, read the things that are new since the last time, and close it.

3. dragonwriter ◴[20 Nov 24 16:32 UTC] No.42195576[source]▶
If you follow a decent number of active accounts, a chronological feed is different, too, especially if it is like Twitter/Bluesky (and unlike Facebook) where responses are the same kind of item as top-level posts.