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8 months agoIt’s a precomputed hash that let’s you know if an item is (kinda) in a set or not. Fast and uses up very little space.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
What you are talking about with graphics is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_(shader_effect)
Personally, if it was just posts from my friends, it would be ok. But when Facebook started to push other posts from outside of my network, based on some shitty algorithm, showing my networks posts out of order or delayed, it quickly went down hill.