This is certainly a growing trend which was first started amongst end-users themselves, and slowly we've seen a few news media outlets also following suite. So far, only a very few government agencies have actually followed. Coming to mind are also The Netherlands. What is attractive for many organisations and agencies on Mastodon, is that...
  • @amki@feddit.deEnglish
    16•2 years ago

    The implied difference is if someone or even you know how the algorithm works, which for “new” is relatively straightforward.

    • @drcobaltjedi@programming.devEnglish
      4•2 years ago

      Yeah

      SELECT TOP(100) * FROM POSTS ORDER BY DATEPOSTED

      Is a relatively straight forward command to a database and hell, I’m guessing extremely readable by your average Joe.

      • @anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
        3•2 years ago

        If you’re talking SQL, it would be SELECT * FROM posts ORDER BY dateposted LIMIT 100.

        • @drcobaltjedi@programming.devEnglish
          1•2 years ago

          There are a lot of flavors of SQL each with their own syntax. I’ve been using Microsoft’s SQL now for 3 years and the syntax I used is correct for that.