cyuThe German Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament has ditched X (Twitter) in favour of open-source decentralised Mastodon
This is great news. Algorithm optimized social networks are poison to society.
Bobby TurkalinoI mean I know this is painfully pedantic but even simply sorting by new is algorithmic
amkiThe 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.