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

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190 points amichail | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 12:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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coldpie ◴[20 Nov 24 14:56 UTC] No.42194418[source]▶
It's because the majority of users are being fed more content than they can consume, whether that's through a large count of follows or global search results or a discovery tab. In that case, you need some method by which to decide what subset of that content to show to the user. Chronological ("show me the latest 50") is one option, but is it the best, for however one defines "best"? The people running these things seem to think it is not the best, for however they define "best", so we see the various discovery algorithms and all their associated pros & cons.
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1. giancarlostoro ◴[20 Nov 24 15:37 UTC] No.42194822[source]▶
I think one issue I see on Facebook is, it went from being very personal, to just being a mix of other social media norms. Which adds noise. If Facebook had a "Show me only relevant personal things" timeline, I'd use it. They used to let you define a custom timeline, where you group x number of friends, it was much nicer than the standard since I could weed out people depending on what type of content I wanted. I've stopped using FB for a while now though.