• migo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    23 hours ago

    Algorithmically curated timelines are designed to be addictive. Fediverse doesn’t have that, it’s time based, like it used to be before.

    • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz
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      22 hours ago

      It CAN be time based, but there’s also a “hot” and an “active” sorting. Both of which are “algorithms”.

      It’s a lot more simple of an algorithm, and doesn’t intentionally push specific topics, but if you open https://lemmy.world/ anonymously, you’ll see a default “All/Active” feed which is sorted by engagement.

      • A Wild Mimic appears!@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        15 hours ago

        It does not restrict them per se, it’s just that the mechanics of what to show you are either simply based on posting time, or amount of “interactions” or “interactions/time” or similar simple algorithms. It would be possible to analyze posts for specific content and show you for example ragebait only, but i doubt that pull request would be accepted - you would probably have to make a fork of your fediverse platform and implement it there.