@darkuncle I'm not sure how feasible it would be to be able to customize the individual feeds. The solution on Bluesky is that people can make and offer feeds and users can subscribe to and use whichever they like. They call it "algorithmic choice."I think that may be the right general direction, but I believe that they haven't considered how the feeds people use help shape the culture of the site as a whole, so someone else using a bad algorithmic feed (e.g. one that amplifies conflict and fake content) can impact me even if I don't personally use it; its availability impacts the behavior of the users around me. So I imagine it would probably make sense to enforce some parameters on what feeds are allowed to do and mandate total transparency, which Bluesky does not do AFAIK.I feel that the importance of shaping the norms and culture of a site is an underappreciated aspect of building a good social media ecosystem. I often think that it would probably make sense to start from the sort of culture and experience you're hoping to offer, go to social and behavioral scientists to inform what mechanisms might encourage that, and only then go to software engineers to start designing a solution that implements the high-level ideas. It seems that most projects start with software engineers designing things, but that's a bit like having software, electrical, and mechanical engineers design an airplane without first consulting aerospace engineers.@joebeone
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