When people talk about "the algorithm" in a vernacular sense (i.e. not the technical definition), they mean the thing that chooses what they see in their social feed. All mainstream social media select content for you, promote stuff you never asked for, while not necessarily even showing you all the messages from the sources that you specifically subscribed to. That's "the algorithm".
The clients that I use in Nostr don't do any of that. They just show me the notes of people I subscribed to, end of.
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npub1f2…xam7y
2024-05-01 11:49:17
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