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 What is an algorithm relay? 
 A relay that returns notes not in chronological order by who you follow

But ordered by other indicators, like reaction counts, or types of notes you tend to react to 
 this should be interesting, since coracle (and I think others) use a windowing algorithm to force sort order. Will the relay respect that or ignore since/until? Seems like there are downsides to both approaches 
 clients also discard ordering info

I think we should add a new REQ-like message type meant for this with cursors 
 The relay will provide the list in what it believes is the best order, but clients can choose to use it or not or just sort by timestamp if they want  
 More specific it's not going to intake any req params, you will just hit a single endpoint like my relay.com/popular/today and it just gives you a list of k1s 
 Is there a way to give the user control over the parameters? Or to change the parameters based on individual preference? 
 Maybe in the long run, to start it's gonna be pretty dumb and basic  
 Will be cool to see what you come up with 
 Doesn't clients usually force the order of incoming data? I think so. 
 Well they will have to make some updates then 🤠