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 “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the feed.”
@buzz @jimray a non-algorithmic feed + a very good algorithmic “highlights since you were last here” would be ideal for me, and I love the idea of infrequent posters you follow getting highlighted
@mcbramhill @jimray Haha, yeah, it's like...hey maybe we could try using algorithms to create something other than perpetually self-reinforcing power laws?