I don’t miss Reddit. Full stop.

I LOVE any plan that makes Big Pharma squeal.

LOL! Agreed

Exactly. I now trust them approximately as far as I can throw a bull.

Perhaps. “Research” was initially pitched as academic and non-profit research, which I was happy to help. Then selling my data to a for-profit with no warning was definitely Not Cool.

I made the mistake of having them sequence my DNA before the first Big Pharma deal with GSK, which took a lot of people by surprise. I’ve since made a point of feeding them as much disinformation as possible every time I’m on their site.

Yep. That what I get for reading too fast. Sorry about that.

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Technically fair point. I stand corrected. I understood OP to want an obscure algo to surface “interesting” content with no need for user interaction. I’m adamantly opposed to injecting that nonsense here.

Thanks for this link. I keep getting the sort orders confused despite having it explained well multiple times.

Technically fair point. I stand corrected.

I understood OP to be pining for an obscured algorithm that surfaces “Interesting” content. I have zero desire for any of that nonsense here. It’s part of the reason that I’m adamantly opposed to federation with Facebook (when they finally figure out how to do it).

Oh? How so?

It’s my understanding that there is no algorithm. View only your subscriptions, only communities on your local instance, or the entire fediverse. Sort them however you want. Mix it up to find what makes you happy.

All that said, I personally would like to avoid seeing any account less than, say a week old. Maybe a filter coded into the interface would work.

Oh, I agree on all points. My post wasn’t clear. I meant to say that if algorithms were available at all, they would eventually be forced on everyone due to making moderations easier by reducing the number of posts that are actually seen. Hence the only rational approach being to never develop them in the first place.

It was rude. I apologize.

The problem is, as we’ve seen repeatedly with the corporate “social” media platforms, algorithms will eventually be turned on by default with no way to turn them off. The only rational path, to my mind, is to never turn them on in the first place.

Dude, you’ve really got a h****n for algorithms, don’t you?

…the post that go into it depend on the people you follow

Yes. Exactly. That’s right.

It wasn’t the only reason I left FB, but it was on the list.

No. Just no. I like being in control of my timeline. I don’t need a computer to decide what I’ll find interesting.

You’re not. If we wanted algorithms, we could go back to Reddit or Facebook.