One thing I am always surprised at when people discuss Twitter/Mastodon clients is that there are apparently still so many people who attempt to consume every post in their timeline. I pretty much gave up any pretense of treating my timeline like an inbox years ago.
(Not an argument for algorithmic timelines at all BTW. I just don’t care that much about rock solid timeline position restoration because I don’t even pretend to follow everything that happens on here.)
@buzz I learned to --love-- tolerate the algorithmic timeline at some point. My hope for mastodon is that I’ll be able to tweak the variables to some degree and end up with something that works a bit better. I don’t need much more optimization than the 2000s era Bayesian spam filters tbh.
@jimray It also basically meant that anyone who wasn’t habitually posting epic multi-message threads all the time basically disappeared.
@buzz @jimray and now the epic thread posters have come here and think they've got to keep that up to be relevant
@powerllama @jimray Over on Mastodon, it is *not* time for some game theory!