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This is (theoretically) a programmer forum. I use the programmer definition. By that definition, not having an algorithm is nonsense.
What if it uses a neural network to recommend posts?
So how does that neural network perform that task? There I can see only two possible options:
A heuristic
Eh, please tell me how you'd implement a heuristic that doesn't work either through magic or an algorithm.