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Legalation banning algorithmic feeds and replacing them with chronological posts from users you subscribe to is imperative to fixing our politics and improving the mental health of young people.
I would definitely not want chronological order. I think people tend to forget how shit those are and how much low quality content there is, especially the bigger communities get. Try it right now on Lemmy or Reddit. I find the Active and Hot sorting on Lemmy pretty good, and those are not designed as algorithmical heroine.
Sure! We can do chronological, most liked, most disliked, most comments. Solid metrics though, nothing that the social media companies can obscure
Chronological is an algorithm too bruh. There's nothing inherently wrong with algorithms, they're just a tool. Modern social media tends to use them for engagement and advertiser$$, which is harmful.
Simple sorts are fundamentally different than the algorithms people are talking about.
Yeah, the extreme view about algorithms that's prevalent in the Fediverse feels a bit like someone finding a Nazi pamphlet on the ground and deciding that the problem is paper.
or the printer. Great analogy
Are you three even old enough to remember an internet before the algorithms?
It still exists in some places
What if I want to install my own algorithm on a Pixelfed feed? What if developers make a variety of competing, open source algorithms? Y'all gonna ban all those "algorithms" too? Be careful of calling for state violence to impose your vague opinions.
God i love the tag feature on boost for lemmy
God i love the tag feature on voyager for lemmy
If you were to relate this to tiktok, how would you ever find people to follow?
The same way we used to? Tags and the ability to search for things, along with word of mouth from your friends and media you follow.
Even before the internet, people found new things like music or books by interacting with those communities, looking in places where those things can be found and finding stuff they like.
We don't need some algorithm to spoon feed us things it wants us to like, we can find it ourselves with minimal effort.
IDK I really liked StumbleUpon even before all this stuff was invented... Sometimes you don't know what you like or what to find things that would normally be outside of your bubble.
StumbleUpon started out being completely random, so it wasn't driven by mining your cookies and feeding the data into an algorithm. I don't know if it eventually became a nefarious advertising front, but I recall it being pretty innocent. Anyway, I really enjoyed that website before link aggregators rose to such dominance.
Making a video sharing app which isn't based as much around a single algorithmic feed?