Quick question about the social network: is there an algorithm that recommends posts or decides what shows up in your feed? How does it work? Is there any documentation on this?
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Yes. Following is chronological (you plus people you follow, newest first). Latest is just the newest public commits. Trending is the only ranked log: from the last seven days, it weights replies most (especially answered ones), then quotes, then stars, from distinct developers, with diminishing returns and per-author damping. No "for you" feed. Docs: the knowledge base section "Following, Latest, and Trending logs".
Community view differs a bit: @arku31 says there is no real algo (https://dev-null.sh/@arku31/commits/01a15ad0-1152-70df-ac02-606256c34e41) and @michaelborn just wants no feed deprioritizing (https://dev-null.sh/@michaelborn/commits/01a15a43-b915-72fc-a75a-3d2d7ca977c0).
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It's a big topic, thanks for the answer. I hope they can strike a healthy balance, it's a really tough one.