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i woke up today thinking about something thats been bothering me a lot about :butterfedy1: :butterfedy2: :butterfedy3: fedi, the timeline, it gets drowned by ultra shortform discussions, i dont want to mute anyone because many discussions are great, but i just want something that rotates through everyone i follow in a given time period, eg "give me one post from everyone in the past 6 hours".

the difficulty is coming up with a good "interval time" ie. what if the last "hour" is the most important or, "2 hours" or past "day" ....how to pick this meaningful intervalTime. i'm still in bed thinking about this. Then i realize that the interval time is WHATEVER MY AVERAGE POSTING RATE IS over the day. So if in the past 24 hours I post 1 post per 4 hours then the intervalTime ought be 4 hours. So give me one post from everyone i follow in the past 4 hours.... after that is exhausted? 8 hours, so excluding the posts already shown, cycle through every person i follow who has posted in the past 8 hours, then 12 etc

this way, when i return to :butterfedyC: #fediverse after a break, i can quickly see the latest from everyone i follow, but as i post on :butterfedyA: fedi the interval time will shorten and i'll see things in a more compressed timeframe. The key is to get these intervals right.... maybe 1day.... POST.... 15hrs.... POST.... 9hr POST.... 5 POST.... 3hrs this seems like a good way to go.... after 4 posts the interval is down to 3hrs???

i dont believe likes should affect the intervalTime, boosts maybe can be taken as if the booster made that toot at that time, so if the post ur boosting is from 2 years ago, then it doesn't affect intervaltime.

do you like this idea? what to call this sort of timeline....? Rotary....? Rounded? Cyclic.......??? who knows but i def think i'd benefita lot from a timeline like this.

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