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Comment by passwordoops | Hacker News Reader

I've long wished all social media platforms had a "Under no circumstances do I wish my feed to be curated. Ever."

Just show me content on a genuine, unfiltered timeline from accounts I have chosen to follow. Doesn't matter if it's a firehose, the feed is already a firehose and I only follow quality posters anyway

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Did you find this article through "New" or front page?

I usually come to HN from Front page, because the discussions are often as good (if not better) than the original link. However, my useage pattern is to peruse the top articles, then switch to New

Having said that, HN isn't ad driven and is more a descendant of message boards. So the incentives driving the curation mechanism are not personalized, but guided (as far as I can tell) purely by user engagement. Considering the good quality of HN's readership, and that there don't seem to be any (few?) bots or influencers what floats to the top tends to be worthwhile. Can't say the same for Twitter, and most definitely not FB.

At least for Twitter, I think this still happens if you move everyone into a list and only view the list.

You can also use search queries like this:

https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20-filter%3Are...

And unfortunately lists are the only functional way to use Twitter.

Twitter has 'latest' vs. 'home'

That discovery is the only reason I stay on the platform. It's instantly noticeable when they automatically switch me back to 'Home'

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