For all the bitching I do about this place, I am particularly glad that at least the feed is stubbornly chronological.
On The Other Place, my feed got a post about severe weather that was a day late. It was super weird to see someone posting about heavy rain and look out my window to blazing sunshine.
(the problem remains that the people that talk about things that are actually happening are either not on here or not findable)
I'm super excited about the potential that the #Fediverse has to offer open source, transparent, customizable, interchangeable algorithms. I'd love to see which options work best for me and have choice!
But right now the only choice here is chronological, and that just isn't working well for me. I hope that changes, because honestly I think that would improve the experience significantly.
And no, I don't want to turn on notifications for dozens of people, I want to come here when I have some free time and see some interesting stuff, which usually is not the most recent stuff.
Chronological view is nice to have, but honestly Twitter surfaces more interesting things for me from my followers (and people they follow). It's fair to criticize it for opacity and all, but it just works better for me than this.
The main reason I'm drifting back to using #Twitter over #Mastodon isn't due to a lack of interesting people to follow here, or falling short of some critical mass, it's #TheAlgorithm. It is better.
I don't want to see the same person who just posted 4 different things all at the top of my feed, followed by someone who boosted a bunch of stuff in a row. I don't want to miss things just because I'm not online at the time they were posted.
Rather than no algorithm at all (#chronologicalFeed), I would like to be able to customize or even write my own #algorithmicFeed.
