Most feed rankings are tuned to maximize time on the app, because that is what sells ads. Woope does not run ads, so that incentive does not exist here - there is nothing for a longer session to sell.

The Free Will Algorithm is the name for Woope's feed ranking: a scored formula, not a black box tuned to keep you scrolling. It decides what shows up in your feed and in Explore, and this page describes what actually feeds into that score.

Instead of optimizing for clicks or watch time, ranking runs on a fixed set of signals:

• -How closely a post matches your interests
• -How recently it was published - a new post gets a temporary boost so it has a chance to be seen before it has collected any engagement, decaying to nothing over the following two days
• -Likes, comments, reactions, saves and shares it has already collected
• -Your history with the author - do you follow them, share a community, or engage with their posts already
• -The author's Woopies and badges, as a signal of established contribution
• -A per-author limit, so one prolific poster cannot fill your whole feed

None of those signals can be bought. See "No Manipulative Ranking" below for the one place money-adjacent activity touches visibility at all.

Woope is built around an interest graph: the interests you pick in onboarding and Settings, which connect you to matching communities, projects, discussions and creators.

Examples of interests:

• -Programming
• -Artificial Intelligence
• -Design
• -Gaming
• -Cybersecurity
• -Entrepreneurship
• -Technology

The graph only grows from interests you explicitly picked and accounts you chose to follow - it is not inferred from time spent looking at something, the way an attention-based feed would build it.

Beyond your declared interests, ranking also looks at what you actually do:

• -Communities you join
• -Topics you follow
• -Projects you explore
• -People you follow
• -Content you react to, comment on or save

These signals shape your feed and Explore recommendations. They are not compiled into an advertiser-facing profile - Woope has no advertisers to hand them to.

The ranking formula itself has no line item for money. What it will not do:

• -Move a post up because someone paid cash for it - nobody can, since nothing on Woope is for sale for real money
• -Optimize for ad impressions, because there is no advertising to optimize for
• -Manufacture outrage or engagement bait by weighting emotional reactions above others

The one place money-adjacent spending touches visibility is Promotions: Woopies you have already earned through activity can buy a temporary visibility boost for one specific post, project or profile. Woopies themselves are never for sale, so that boost is paid for with contribution, not cash - and it never changes how the underlying ranking formula scores anything else.

You control the inputs that matter most to your own feed:

• -Which interests you follow
• -Which communities you join
• -Which people you follow
• -What content you engage with

Change any of those in Settings or on the relevant page, and your feed reflects it on the next load - there is no separate "preferences" system fighting your actual activity for control of what you see.

Woope ranks discovery around shared interests and communities rather than raw popularity, because a smaller community that matches what you actually work on is usually more useful than the single most-followed account on the platform.

Communities help you find:

• -People who think similarly
• -New projects
• -Discussions
• -Knowledge
• -Opportunities

This page lists the actual signals behind the ranking rather than a generic promise to "be transparent" - if a future change adds or removes a signal, this page gets updated to match, not the other way around.

The formula will keep changing as the product does. What will not change is the constraint it is built under: no signal for cash, and no signal designed to manufacture engagement rather than reflect it.

The ranking formula will keep evolving as Woope grows and as new surfaces (communities, projects, portfolios) need their own discovery logic.

The measure we hold it to stays the same: does it help you find people, projects and communities worth your time, without anyone being able to buy their way past that.