Presenting: the Reply Sorting alignment chart

Samuel

@samuel.fm

D&D alignment chart

Good:
You get to choose
Whatever algorithm Twitter uses
Custom feeds but for replies

Neutral:
What’s hot
Reverse chronological
Chronological

Evil:
Sort by likes
Alphabetical by handle
Alphabetical by post text

Samuel@samuel.fm· 7 Sept 2023

truly the chaotic evil of sorting methods

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Samuel 7 Sept 2023

Please argue over placements, I don’t think it’s quite right yet

🚲delete from elected select uid from partisans where party = "R"7 Sept 2023

chaotic evil is sorting by distance from an unknown randomly generated reply

thought agent jabsco 🏁7 Sept 2023

pretty sure twitter uses sort by likes

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Samuel 7 Sept 2023

I think it does some sort of over complicated For You algorithm

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thought agent jabsco 🏁7 Sept 2023

Just spent half an hour digging through the The Algorithm codebase, and... yeah, as far as I can tell, replies sort using the same logic as the For You timeline

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/src/java/com/twitter/search/earlybird/search/relevance/LinearScoringParams.java

github.com

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Samuel 7 Sept 2023

🫡🫡🫡 thank you for putting in far too much effort fact checking my guess