That would greatly depend on how many people/places you follow. I ran like this for years on FB and Twitter and never had an issue like that. If I refreshed it’s because I wanted to see newer stuff. That said I only had like 100-150 follows on either and those places/people don’t post THAT often. And with Chronological, you can stop when get to posts you’ve seen, or have some idea if you missed a chunk. It worked so much better and it’s how I sort Lemmy.
That’s fine, but most people don’t want their feeds like that. I for sure don’t have time to follow literally all posts from the things I follow - I need some sort of filtering mechanism.
So, how do you know you’re not missing something important or interesting? Whats the point if you can’t guarantee things you want to see aren’t being pushed out of view by the algorithm? To me, that completely defeats the point of using something like that. Without using chronological, I’d regularly get told about things I cared to know, well after the event happened. I’d miss notifications from friends and family that were important to me. Even with favoriting certain things, it made having that feed useless and it’s one of many reasons I stopped using them. It’s useless without knowing that I can see what I care to see.
I would never use an algorithmic feed for friends and family relations, so that’s simply not relevant. Tbh I don’t use “social media” with friends and family at all, I just use chats with them.
how do you know you’re not missing something important or interesting?
I mean this is just FOMO if you ask me. There always going to be something you’ll miss - it’s impossible to follow everything completely. I find it better to get a condensed view of the most important stuff, and then I can skip most of the rest.
That would greatly depend on how many people/places you follow. I ran like this for years on FB and Twitter and never had an issue like that. If I refreshed it’s because I wanted to see newer stuff. That said I only had like 100-150 follows on either and those places/people don’t post THAT often. And with Chronological, you can stop when get to posts you’ve seen, or have some idea if you missed a chunk. It worked so much better and it’s how I sort Lemmy.
That’s fine, but most people don’t want their feeds like that. I for sure don’t have time to follow literally all posts from the things I follow - I need some sort of filtering mechanism.
So, how do you know you’re not missing something important or interesting? Whats the point if you can’t guarantee things you want to see aren’t being pushed out of view by the algorithm? To me, that completely defeats the point of using something like that. Without using chronological, I’d regularly get told about things I cared to know, well after the event happened. I’d miss notifications from friends and family that were important to me. Even with favoriting certain things, it made having that feed useless and it’s one of many reasons I stopped using them. It’s useless without knowing that I can see what I care to see.
I would never use an algorithmic feed for friends and family relations, so that’s simply not relevant. Tbh I don’t use “social media” with friends and family at all, I just use chats with them.
I mean this is just FOMO if you ask me. There always going to be something you’ll miss - it’s impossible to follow everything completely. I find it better to get a condensed view of the most important stuff, and then I can skip most of the rest.