a former flatmate once wished for "72 hr news", or news about what happened over 72 hours ago, but with enough time to actually get context and updates on the story
i know people are against popularity contests here, or trending topics, and i often feel strongly about shuffled timelines, but i do wonder if there's a big of wiggle room
like listing "here are all the posts older than 24hrs, that got shared a lot in their first 24hrs"
That sounds a bit like what I hated most of twitter though. First a hit tweet reached the people I knew, then their following. But on day 2/3 it got shoved into the feeds of random people and the quality of reactions tanked. Especially when the algorithm started to scrape the bottom of the barrel.
Here a post loses it's momentum after a day and then everything is normal again.
It might work here because things are balanced differently, but there is a fine line between having your post reach more people who could be interested in it and people who are not and shouldn't see it.
in all honesty, i think i'd still prefer a editorialised system, but yeah, you're right about quality of interactions, any system should be opt in, ideally
There are places where it would fit, like a digest of the most popular posts from the people you follow, or for tags. And I would find it useful there. It just has to be carefully engineered to protect the poster.
I guess the most frustrating thing about Twitter is the lack of a ripcord to opt out of the algorithmic feed and coast on organic interactions. Opt in, and opt out later would be very important to me.
