Samuel
@samuel.fm
"I want to discover new posts but I want them in chronological order" why is this such a common ask because it makes no sense
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max power 🌌70% Following 30% For You but inserted into Following by corresponding timestamp
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David Buchananlike what's hot classic?
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Erica "digifox" Kovac"no take, only throw" is a common refrain among users.
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Steve Klabnik"You can't have your cake and eat it" is a proverb for a reason
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Dominik 🔮probably so that if you see something you’ve already seen / liked, you know that you’ve been here before and don’t have to go further back in case you’ve missed something?
1 2Samuelmakes sense but why do the posts have to be in chronological order
1 1Dominik 🔮because if they’re not, how do I know that I have seen all posts? Say I see all the posts as of right now, then come back one hour later.
Now I want to read everything “since the last time”. Now I just read until I see I post I’ve already seen.
This only works when chronologically ordered, right?
2 2Samuelbut what does it mean to “see all posts” if it’s an algorithmic feed? we can keep showing you relevant posts near-indefinitely. chronological only makes sense with a limited set of posts, such as “all posts from people you follow”. “any possibly-relevant post” is unlimited
4 3Dominik 🔮yes, all posts from people I follow. That's why I follow them 😅
2 2Samuelyep and thats “Following” and it’s chronological. I think we’re getting wires crossed - I’m talking about people asking for it to be an algorithmic discovery feed *and also* chronological like this poor redditor
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ZippyVtuber🔞They already do that tho xD
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StasiaReaderI don't want an algorithmic feed.
I want a CHRONOLOGICAL FEED.
2 2Samuelthen use Following
2 1Dominik 🔮I have both the "Following" and "Latest from Follows" feeds, and they are not the same. It seems to me that only the latter is chronological.
Right now the top post on Following for me is from 5h ago, while Latest from Follows is 24m ago
1 2StasiaReaderOooh, I'll have to figure out how to set up a Latest From feed. Thanks for the idea!
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Juliabsky.app/profile/did:...
It is currently, right this second, down for some unknown reason, by typically this happens when @why.bsky.team is on vacation and not around to reboot the single computer running this feed. It's sitting in his bedroom closet or something.
View feed on Bluesky 1 2StasiaReaderThis is great, but what I want is the Discovery feed in chronological form. I am, apparently, weird for wanting this.
1StasiaReaderBut I want to see more than just the people I follow.
Why are you so determined to not accept that some of us prefer chronological order for all social media?
1ZippyVtuber🔞Following feed does that
1 1StasiaReaderBut I want to see things from people I don't follow. What's wrong with chronological order?
1 1ZippyVtuber🔞So you want every single post from the website in order? I’m confused. That would be insane. There’s way too many people posting at once all the time for that to be possible, I think.
1 1StasiaReaderComputers measure time in microseconds. I'm pretty sure the bright folks involved in programming social media sites could figure it out.
But yes. I want all the posts in chronological order.
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ZippyVtuber🔞How exactly will you keep up with who knows how many posts posted a minute? Or even a second?
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mashedits a pretty simple ask. just curate x number of relevant posts per hour and mix them into my normal chronological feed of ppl i follow. the most important part is that i want to hit the bottom of the feed so i know when to stop scrolling, but i also want to see content from people i dont follow.
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DaveFor you should be a slice of interesting posts I've never seen, but they should be neatly ordered.
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Josh Holme 📎Any progress on timeline sync? Out remembering where I was in my timeline when I come back to the app?
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Michael Druker 🇨🇦Seeing posts about things that are happening but out of order is really weird, so I get this one.
If I had a good way to do post recommendations, I’d try sprinkling some into my chronological feeds…
Josh GoldbergI don't trust the algorithm to get it right
I want to be able to go back in a predictable way
IME it's faster to load
I want an exhaustive list -> feel like I'm not missing things (when scrolling a lot)