[apparent]

What does it mean to have someone on a chronological feed, versus the algorithmic one? Does that mean a chronological feed of the accounts they follow? I hardly ever use that, since I don't follow many people, and some people I follow post about lots of stuff I don't care about

from the study:

> We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks

[timbit42]

I don't follow people who post about lots of stuff I don't care about. I follow hashtags instead, which gives me a much higher signal to noise ratio than following those people.

[apparent]

I thought hashtags were dead. Does this surface tweets that just have the word, not the hashtag? Can you follow multiple words using boolean operators?

[timbit42]

Perhaps it depends on the platform. Hashtags work great on Mastodon.

Some Mastodon clients allow following multiple words using boolean operators although the amount of support may vary depending on which client you use:

eg.: #hashtag1 AND #hashtag2