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This is an interesting proposal. Although I think it would be detrimental in its current form, I'd like to emphasise that I would like to see more discussion of potential modifications to the way the site is curated and presented. I don't think this should ever be regarded as "finished" - improvements should always be sought.

As such I've added an upvote to the question to indicate that this is an important discussion to have.

## My concerns
### Seeing less
If you see mostly posts that others with similar voting patterns like, then this may lead to an [echo chamber] effect where some posts that would benefit you are hidden from you.

### Curating less
Votes on Codidact are not just about expressing what you like and want to see, they are indicating which posts are beneficial to the community.

Since the community is responsible for measuring the quality of a post, showing people only what they are expected to upvote may have a cost in quality. If all of the people who might downvote a post are never shown it, this means that the people best placed to recognise a problem are prevented from seeing it.

This is not just a voting bias. The people who would comment to help explain how a post can be improved will also be kept away from it. I suspect this may also lead to a decrease in suggested edits.
Every post is only presented to those who like it, so everything gets upvotes and the critical analysis of a community of experts is removed.

## Testing
My concerns have not been measured - they are just my own opinions. Personally I would prefer not to experiment with this on codidact.com unless there is a strong reason to believe there will be a benefit, but that is not my decision.

If a Codidact community expresses interest in trying out this approach or one like it, it would just need someone to make the required modifications to the software.

The [QPixel software] which runs Codidact is open source and available for anyone to modify and set up their own instance to test this if they wish, even if there isn't an existing Codidact community that wants to run a pilot.


[echo chamber]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_%28media%29 "Wikipedia article on Echo chamber"
[QPixel software]: https://github.com/codidact/qpixel "QPixel software repository on GitHub"