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[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago (12 children)

"Noooo it's our algorithm we can't be held liable for the program we made specifically to discover what people find a little interesting and keep feeding it to them!"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I wonder if you built a social media site where the main feature was that the algorithm just showed you things in sequential order like in the old days, would it be popular

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

People complain about mastodons lack of algorithms a lot. Its part of how misskey, ice shrimp, and catodon came to be

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