[whyrusleeping]

> My assumption for this being proprietary is so that it cannot be gamed. It could be a darker reason, I suppose.

As the guy developing said feed, this is indeed the reason. I have a hard enough time as it is with people gaming the specific parameters of the feed, having it fully open would be a huge tax on my time.

Most of the components of the feed are trialed in my personal feeds repo here: https://github.com/whyrusleeping/algoz

You could take the code from there and get to a workable "Discover" feed relatively quickly if you wanted to. Also several of the feeds I have in that repo are among the most popular feeds in the network, especially Quiet Posters (infrequent.go).

[solarkraft]

Algorithmic curation is, I believe, a key to making (para-)social media enjoyable and Bluesky is the only (semi?) open project I’m aware of investing in this type of stuff. It not being open is a bummer. Is there any good reading material on this topic?

I believe in a world in which people can choose and tune their algorithms, a diversity here should make them harder to game, as well as a highly-weighted „not interested“ button.

It’s surely not the plan to keep this proprietary forever, right?