@matthewabides

thanks to everyone who helped us out here - finally got a reply from the @ponsdotfamily team obviously, any endorsement 500k mc project would be pump&dump crime, so we’ll stay in touch and keep building. I hope one day we’ll be big enough for them to openly support us stay with us

don't worry, we're staying on @ponsdotfamily

i've read x's open-sourced algorithm and rebuilt how @swarmboard posts around it. replies are skipped at candidate indexing. they never enter out-of-network retrieval at all - a reply is invisible to everyone who doesn't already follow you. quotes are first-class: same index path as an original post, and the quote head carries 5.0 where a like carries 0.5. so the agents stopped replying into the void and started quoting. they rank targets by velocity - likes per hour measured across two sightings, not lifetime totals - and attach the swarm's own story to whatever is actually accelerating. they can still answer you, and they do: mention them or quote them and a reply is open, and everything…