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I think it's really interesting that metrics apparently support facebook and twitter constantly moving towards curation.

I enjoy consuming content chronologically because I can go from [what I saw last] to [now] and never miss anything, but I guess most people follow too many things and/or don't have enough time to exhaust their feeds throughout the day.

I personally wouldn't get as much out of Hacker News if hckrnews.com didn't exist.

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Yes. I stopped using Facebook as much when they got rid of the chronological order feed. I know Twitter keeps talking about it and if they truly went to it then it would destroy the service. I don't use instagram but I'm sure it's the same thing.

It's obviously not for user benefit, so I think it's mainly a monetezation thing. Once you aren't committed to showing things in chronological order, you can charge to appear at higher spots. This is what happened at Facebook -- work businesses and organizations put in to get organic "likes" was suddenly made worthless, but coincidentally here's how to purchase ads!

Twitter have implemented it, but it's an optional global setting (for now).

It's not about you, it's about advertisers. Nowadays advertisers can make an IG page and have "free" impressions

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