"Our goal shouldn’t just be preserving a #chronologicalfeed at all costs. Our goal should be building better #relationships. We need to ensure that when a new member joins any one of our million fediverses, they see the whole room, not just the people shouting the loudest.
Let’s find our common ground, let’s build tools that reflect the reality of our communities, and let’s give the #quietmajority their voice."

https://jaz.co.uk/2026/05/12/there-are-a-million-fediverses-some-of-them-are-louder-than-others/

20 years of #Twitter… it is crucial to understand its successes & failures.

"The original #ambientjournalism framework marked a departure from traditional, intentional consumption, like reading a newspaper or watching a TV news bulletin. The main features of ambient #journalism were immediacy, unexpected discoveries, and the blending of professional and #citizenjournalism enabled by Twitter. Its architecture, with a reverse-#chronologicalfeed, a 140-character limit, and a #socialgraph-based network structure, supported what #AxelBruns called #produsage, where publics act as both users and producers of information. In this ambient environment, retweeting was not just an engagement metric but a #curatorialact of journalism. This reflects a broader shift in digital journalism research toward the news ecosystem and landscape, including ambient and networked forms of journalism emerging from #socialmedia practices."

https://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/3254

March 15, 2016.

The day Instagram announced algorithmic feeds.

Their excuse: "You miss 70% of posts."

Translation: "We're taking control of what you see."

8 years later:
- 40% ads
- Only 10% of friends' posts reach you
- 60% is strangers you never chose

You didn't choose this.

Full timeline: https://snugg.social/en/blog/when-did-social-media-get-so-bad

#Fediverse #ChronologicalFeed #Algorithm

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)

#Mastodon #Fediverse #ChronologicalFeed

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.

#chronologicalfeed #algorithm #birdapp #backsliding

@schwa
An interesting thing is that the thread repeatedly talks about user’s “happiness” without mentioning what they actually measured and how. Knowing for-profit corporates, “happiness” was most likely measured along some axis where it just so happens to coincide with “tendency to make users addicted and doomscrolling”.

Sugar cubes will give me happiness and keep me coming back for more, as long as I don’t notice the rot it’s creating in me long term.

#doomScrolling #algorithmicFeed #chronologicalFeed

Instagram’s Chronological Feed is Finally Back

#culture #news #adammosseri #algorithms #chronological #chronologicalfeed #facebook #feeds #instagram #instagramfeed #meta #safety #socialmedia