I mean, that’s a little pedantic. Those are simple sorts by post attribute, not individualized preference targets. And you explicitly choose your own sort, it isn’t assigned secretly and dynamically.
It’s the difference between getting junk mail in your mailbox and going through the card catalogue at the library.
“hot” and “active” are not simple post attributes. It’s a weighted algorithm that takes into account many things like score, time, how fast the score is changing, upvote percentages, etc.
It’s not a personalized feed, but it’s farm from simple or objective. Look at how many people complain about reddits many different sorting algorithms
When people say “no algorithms”, they don’t mean literally no algorithm, because by definition there always is one. It’s clear what they are referring to.
I mean, that’s a little pedantic. Those are simple sorts by post attribute, not individualized preference targets. And you explicitly choose your own sort, it isn’t assigned secretly and dynamically.
It’s the difference between getting junk mail in your mailbox and going through the card catalogue at the library.
“hot” and “active” are not simple post attributes. It’s a weighted algorithm that takes into account many things like score, time, how fast the score is changing, upvote percentages, etc.
It’s not a personalized feed, but it’s farm from simple or objective. Look at how many people complain about reddits many different sorting algorithms
When people say “no algorithms”, they don’t mean literally no algorithm, because by definition there always is one. It’s clear what they are referring to.