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A sort-by-distinctiveness sort option?

Open kixiQu opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

I think it might be neat to have an option to sort by – if I'm understanding this right –

      return (b.followed_by.size / b.followers_count) - (a.followed_by.size/ a.followers_count)

or, for the lazy smoothing method recommended me by a college prof years ago for ratios like these,

    return ((b.followed_by.size + 1) / (b.followers_count + 1)) - ((a.followed_by.size + 1) / (a.followers_count + 1))

https://github.com/gabipurcaru/followgraph/blob/b39369d8a8c29ce9416149c52305ce0c11baba17/components/Content.tsx#L109-L114

The current sort is good for people who are looking for new content to fill their feeds – but I'm also interested in increasing the connectedness of my little neighborhood within the network. So knowing that 80% of someone's followers are people I follow makes me much more interested in that person than in, say, Pixelfed being very widely followed by all people who have been around for a long time on Fedi.

anyway I know this is not a very helpful feature request because I'm not touching any of the actual UI work that'd be necessary to make it real, so definitely feel free to ignore. Cheers on the tool in general, it's very neat!

kixiQu avatar Dec 24 '22 01:12 kixiQu