The German Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament has ditched X (Twitter) in favour of open-source decentralised Mastodon

https://sh.itjust.works/post/3735914

The German Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament has ditched X (Twitter) in favour of open-source decentralised Mastodon - sh.itjust.works

This is great news. Algorithm optimized social networks are poison to society.
I mean I know this is painfully pedantic but even simply sorting by new is algorithmic
The implied difference is if someone or even you know how the algorithm works, which for “new” is relatively straightforward.

Yeah

SELECT TOP(100) POSTS ORDER BY DATEPOSTED

Is a relatively straight forward command to a database and hell, I’m guessing extremely readable by your average Joe.

If you’re talking SQL, it would be SELECT * FROM posts ORDER BY dateposted LIMIT 100.
There are a lot of flavors of SQL each with their own syntax. I’ve been using Microsoft’s SQL now for 3 years and the syntax I used is correct for that.