Stop saying there are no algorithms. Algorithms don't necessarily involve opaque machine learning-driven decisions. Showing posts in chronological order is an algorithm. Showing a partial ordering of posts coming in from other nodes in a federated distributed system is an algorithm. Anything involving computers uses algorithms.

Even if you can predict what it does, there's an algorithm. ESPECIALLY if you can predict what it does.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

@mattblaze 100% agree! Also, there are good ranking algorithms that filter out obvious nonsense, and bad ranking algorithms that shove click-bait in your face. Chronological ranking is somewhere near the boring, unhelpful middle of that spectrum.