ordered by what has settled on chain
Fast settlement notes.
Browsing is ordered by what has actually settled on chain, not by follower count. A follower count is a number this server keeps — free to inflate, and every platform that ranks by it ends up ranking whoever is best at inflating it. Gross volume costs real money to move and cannot be manufactured. Followers are still shown, because reach is genuine information; they simply do not decide the order.
Post search reads titles and previews only. A paid post’s body is never indexed — a paywall that leaks a word at a time to anyone with a search box is not a paywall.