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lobstersweb

An open-source alternative to iCloud and Google Photos

Alternative photo storage

Emerging
Signal score
46
as of 51d ago
Sources
2
agreeing on icloud
Trajectory
Too early
needs a few more snapshots

Why this scored 46

every term, weighted
Velocity+25.4 / 40

Engagement gained per hour since the last capture, against the fastest item on its own source

Acceleration+7.5 / 25

Whether that velocity is itself speeding up, as a per-hour rate

Cross-source spread+3.1 / 25

How many independent communities are talking about the same entity

Recency+10.0 / 10

Decays to zero over 14 days

Saturation penalty0.0 / 30

Subtracted once something is big and old — we rank what's next, not what's peaked

Composite46.0

Weights are hand-tuned, not learned — we're calibrating them against realized trends as history accumulates. On a topic's first sighting there's no previous reading to compare against, so acceleration starts from a neutral prior rather than a measurement, and velocity falls back to engagement over its whole lifetime until a second reading exists. Full methodology

Signal history

7-day window (free)
Not enough history yet — the trend line fills in as snapshots accrue (every 30 min).

Entities

icloudgoogle photos
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