[TheJoYo]

I've been using a chronological order social media for a couple of years now and I wouldn't trade it for a sorting algo. Sure, I miss some things that are likely interesting and sometimes I need to mute some that post too often. I think content tagging is what people were really asking for when they got "optimized for engagement."

[Nextgrid]

Is there a mainstream social media platform that still supports a chronological order? Twitter is the closest one but as far as I know they still periodically reset the feed to the algorithmic one, overriding your previous decision.

[sefrost]

Strava brought back the chronological feed and seemed to get a lot of good press for it at the time.

https://road.cc/content/tech-news/271757-strava-has-brought-...

[ryandrake]

Old school forums. I'm a member of quite a few hobby-related forums and they are great.

Basically anything without crowdsourced voting that affects placement of the message. That could be obvious things like reddit posts, and other things like online reviews. Effortless "likes" and "upvotes" produce the worst feeds.

[TheJoYo]

https://joinmastodon.org has 500k active users this month, 1 mil the last 6 months.