First things first: Meta is a terrible company that has spent years making terrible decisions and being terrible at explaining the challenges of social media trust & safety, all while prioritiz…
Technically it does, it does use ranking algorithms, but they are for sorting and surfacing content rather than a modern “engagement optimization” system like a recommendation feed designed to maximize time spent.
So is Lemmy…
I was wondering the other day if Lemmy or Bluesky have any algorithms that are actively trying to keep users engaged?
Cool thing about Lemmy is you can just read the code and find out
IIRC somewhere they also explained it in plain English what the sorting methods do. My layman brain thinks that’s a kind of algorithm.
Kindly correct this layman if I’m misunderstanding :)
Technically it does, it does use ranking algorithms, but they are for sorting and surfacing content rather than a modern “engagement optimization” system like a recommendation feed designed to maximize time spent.