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@dsfgs @humanetech @grishka the suggested posts come from the trending API on the discover page, they are just the most liked posts in the past 24 hours.

When you join and aren’t following anyone, having an empty timeline is not ideal. All we are doing is taking the 10 most liked posts and showing them after the home timeline.

2 Jun 2021 at 10:48 | Open on mastodon.social
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Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters

@dansup
Please do not proceed with this.

Likes are gamed. Popularity contests go against the spirit of Fedi.

Make a timeline #Variety. Cycles through the Federated TL so everyone's latest post in the past 24 hours is shown first, then everyone's 2nd ranked by latest, then 3rd, etc. Proceed until you have log(n) users from that day left, then show a helpful screen that encourages searching w #hashtags if deemed needed. Then move to previous 24 hour cycle. Repeat.
@humanetech @grishka

2 Jun 2021 at 11:21 | Reply | Open on activism.openworlds.info
Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters

@dansup @humanetech @grishka
Adaption: cycle through each user in each 24 hour period at most three times, before moving to previous 24 hour period, or until less than log(n) users remain. If there are less than 50 unique users in a day tell the user the instance is not federated with many users today, and encourage them to find users on other servers, they might like. This list can be curated by admin.

Its for Variety and should not be the default TL.

@dansup @humanetech @grishka
Adaption: cycle through each user in each 24 hour period at most three times, before moving to previous 24 hour period, or until less than log(n) users remain. If there are less than 50 unique users in a day tell the user the instance is not federated with many users today, and encourage them to find users on other servers, they might like. This list can be curated by admin.

2 Jun 2021 at 11:35 | Reply | Open on activism.openworlds.info
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