MHLoppy

I don’t know how well this works for Macs, but is a multi-boot environment a possibility? You could have a separate OS set up for a group of tasks which you boot into when you need to do that. It seems a bit clunky compared to e.g., virtual desktops or similar though.

It’s technically an option, yeah, but as you said it’s not something practically used as an “everyday” feed-sorting algorithm. It’s not as though it’s a default or suggested sort option - compare that to Mastodon where it’s the only sort option X_X

Definitely agree that the the common-with-Mastodon viewpoint of exclusively using chronological feeds seems to have over-corrected too far. Can you imagine if the threadiverse was sorted that way? It would be insane and essentially unusable at scale - so we can at least acknowledge that sorting algorithms have a useful place and are not some unsalvageable, irredeemable evil. I wish there was something like a bunch of open source algorithms which the user could choose between in whatever UI they’re using. At the very least there should be some acknowledgement that I, the user, don’t have an identical level of interest in every account I follow, or even in every topic which the same account posts about.

And while microblogging platforms seem to have it worst, there have also been times in the threadiverse where I’ve subscribed to a community/magazine only to later unsubscribe because the activity levels it produces in my feed are much higher than my interest levels in it. So even here (where we have sorting by “hot” etc), some kind of user-configurable weighting would be nice to better match how I actually want my feed to work!

edit: typo