Wondering about Micro.blog:
How often does Discover refresh? It hasn’t changed since I signed up, but if I click around individual profiles, I see newer posts by the people on it. Is it hand-curated by someone who went to sleep yesterday at 2:30pm? 😆
Do people see this? How?
@alltom Not very regularly, I think. I believe I've read Photos is hand-curated, and sometimes it goes a day without updating. The other tagmoji discover feeds update automatically, so that's nice. I live in another time zone, sometimes I go a whole day without an update on the main discover, and then it updates in the evening. Anyhow, I'm thinking maybe one update a day, if we're lucky. It could be a lot more, as discovering people when first starting can be a bit hard.
@maique @alltom Sometimes I get to bed earlier than that!
Here are the details on Discover, which is hand-curated not automated: help.micro.blog/2019/disc...
The tagmoji feeds update automatically if someone uses that tagmoji. Sometimes we prune those feeds if off-topic posts appear there.
@alltom In answer to your question #1, it’s hand-curated by @macgenie and @manton. There can be lags because of this. They’ve been hinting for a while that they might eventually start asking members of the community to be curators. As for question #2, are you asking how you can know if people have seen your post? You can’t. It’s part of M.b’s charm: you don't know who’s reading until they comment. So, you’ll post for substance not for spectacle.
Also: welcome!
@rnv I think it’s going to take some adjustment for me to get comfortable writing without knowing approximately who’s reading and how they found it. I don’t have that context for people who visit my home page, so I polish those articles for hours. On Twitter, evidence of interaction is everywhere so I can trace nearly every follow. So I was caught off-guard when people started replying to me here before Discover updated. But I think maybe people found me through a comment I left?
Also, thanks! :)