Yoyoo great post and talk - @mantequilla-soft just closed that gap on https://3speak.tv 👩‍🚒

The new algo is live! It's based on viewer retention + the interests users pick themselves. We reused the LLM we already run for captions: it takes the transcription + the post data (body, community, tags, etc.) and works out what the video is actually about aka finds a general "topic".

Also 3Speak struggles with viewer numbers right now as every Hive frontend but we've got one big advantage: everyone else uses our player. So on the retention side, we are covered :P
The algo runs on the feeds, plus the recommended list on the watch page and the shorts feed, of course. We'll be tuning it over the next days/weeks, but I think this is a huge milestone towards actually feeling like an app in 2026 :D