Which RSS reader do you use in that case?
And is it fair to say there's a middle ground between purely chronological feeds vs algorithms that reward engagement/time spent on the app?
And is it fair to say there's a middle ground between purely chronological feeds vs algorithms that reward engagement/time spent on the app?
My feed reader (that I wrote myself) rewards things that I thumbs up and punishes things that I thumbs down.
I agree about the need to have some means of filtering. This is a major weakness of RSS, alongside onboarding and discovery. Algorithms serve the purpose of filtering well. The problem is their opacity.
In the public discourse over "algorithms", the definition seems to be "something that maximizes your (time on site|outrage|clicking)" and not the real definition
In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm (/ˈælɡərɪðəm/ ⓘ) is a
finite sequence of mathematically rigorous instructions, typically used
to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation. [1]