I enjoy my feed here, but Mastodon is *terrible* about bringing posts to my attention.

I'll see some interesting post from somebody I follow turn up, think "huh, they haven't posted anything in a while", then click on their profile and learn that no, they *have* posted a bunch of stuff, I just haven't seen any of it for whatever reason.

I know there's a strong All Algorithms Bad feeling around here, but simple reverse chronological feeds are not scaling well for me.

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I keep having to laugh that "show most recent post first" is an algorithm.

It's a dumb algorithm, in the sense that it doesn't take much processing, not that it's bad or anything, but it is definitely an algorithm.

People who talk about coming here to escape algorithms might miss that they are still just under the finger of a different algorithm.

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