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Hrefna (DHC) (hrefna@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 09:48:41 JST Hrefna (DHC)

This is a point I've made before, and I'd like to underscore it here for a moment.
When I ask a friend I haven't seen in a few weeks how they are doing, do I want to hear:
1. A general summary of the last few weeks, focusing on highlights. Possibly out of strict order timewise but going through things in terms of importance.
2. A play-by-play starting with what they ate for breakfast today and working their way backwards?
Of _course_ I want the highlights!
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  @socketwench@hackers.town Most people who have extensive follow lists and aren't online most of the time and follow more than a few dozen accounts don't like chronological timelines because there's no way to see the highlights of what happened when you weren't online. It's analogous to everyday life. When you catch up with a group of people I haven't talked to for a whil, do you ask them all to tell you everything that's happened in reverse-chronological order? There are certainly ways to do this that aren't the problematic privacy-invasive algorithmic timelines of corporate media. But Fedi hasn't gone that route. So, think of every "Fedi's good because it doesn't have algorithmic timeline" post you've seen in that light. @socketwench@hackers.town
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  Hrefna (DHC) (hrefna@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 09:52:32 JST Hrefna (DHC)
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  Similarly, if I have friends who are all over the world and I log in once a day, do I want to have to scroll through 300 posts before I see how my friends in Japan are doing?
  No! I want to see how they are doing as part of my experience too!
  The other day I logged on and there were 800 unread messages and I had only been logged out for order hours.
  Understand: wanting timelines to be smarter than reverse chron is not "wanting corporate control over what I see."
  It's _common_.
  
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  C.B.Leslie (cbleslie@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 11:13:27 JST C.B.Leslie
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  @hrefna I would start organizing in lists, I suppose.
  
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