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giancarlostoro ◴[] 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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eddieroger ◴[] No.42194433[source]
Aside from the usual "because everyone has different preferences and more people prefer it this way," a lot of what happens on social media is ephemeral, and to many people there is little value to go back and see things that happened a while ago versus something happening right now with higher engagement. It's the difference of seeing what happened versus wanting to be part of it.
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1. dragonwriter ◴[] No.42195556[source]
But “chronological” feeds are typically newest-first, so “people don't want to go back to what happened a while ago” isn’t really an argument against them.