This would push users toward local posts (especially on smaller instances) while still supporting a better distribution of user engagement over the threadiverse. And if you don’t trust that it was implemented correctly – you can simply check it by counting the amounts of posts against your chosen probabilities.
Edit: changed feed name to mixed-feed
I find it interesting that many of us ran screaming from the corporate Algorithms that warped our brains for the last 10+ years.
And now we’re trying to put algorithms here.
The point is the ability to choose the algorithm and knowing exactly what it does.
Totally different. Our algorithms are open source.
User configured. Not company configured. If you want to die on a really, really stupid hill, then yes they are both algorithms.
Heck, I didn’t even state an opinion.
The venom in the replies is real, though.
I find it interesting that you perceive this as venom.
I see what you did there.