Ability for users to choose different recommendation algorithms

[lebed2045]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Right now everyone is forced to see whatever twitter algo will consider it worthy to get into the timeline. User incentives might be different, and change over time.

Describe the solution you'd like Ideal solution will contain some sort of market of different recommendation algorithms, preferably accessible by 3rd party developers. And some economical model to run them. It can be either a subscription model, or share from advertisement gain, or something else. So users can pick up any algo and be able to change decisions later on.

Describe alternatives you've considered Basic alternative might be to choose twitter "in-house" option to "tune" algorithm, to choose what user wants to see. For example, sometimes I wonder what timeline Elon Musk or Naval Ravikant see, since the list of subscribers is publically known - there's no invasion of privacy in such a feature.

Additional context Overall, I think twitter (and any other web2 social network) have to solve fundamental incentive misalignment with users in 3 dimensions: 1. Who owns the information on my page? Why can't I self-host it, and be forced to choose one platform who boosted the network? Sure, the company effort and incentives should be compensated, but when 100% of content is made by users - why don't users own it, at least partially? Philosophical question, for sure, but so is Feudalism vs Democracy.

2. Signaling or discoverability: who will see the updates from my page and who decided that. On what merit? Is algo that maximizes advertiser profit the same incentive as the user base as a whole? Can we do differently? Can this increase the probability of a better future?

3. Recommendation timeline: In a sense, our mind is made from information we consume every day in the same way as our body is made from nutrients we consume with food. Eat junk food and get ill, or consume junk information to get mad. We surely don't want advertisers of food chains to choose our daily menu, so why is it OK to have it with an informational "diet"?