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Sorting by new also is an algorithm.
Not trolling here: I think this is something the fediverse will need to decide at some point. What are the acceptance criteria for timeline presentations? But this would also be a perfect example of diversity: don’t like the way our instance sorts your timeline? No problem, here’s some instances that do it differently.
The goal should be to allow users to choose their own algorithm, including third party algorithms you can install yourself or something.
Sure, but the algorithms themselves will have to be provided by the instance, so I guess different instance might make different choices, for example due to privacy concerns etc.
You could engineer it so users could provide their own algorithm.
It would be a HARD engineering problem, but not impossible, IMO.
Allowing people to submit their own algorithms is easy. Setting it up so there are no vulnerabilities and no one can intentionally crash the server is hard. Maybe a system that allows the user to assign different weights to each data point (time since posted, upvotes, comments, etc.) would be more doable.