Comment on peertube recomendation algo alpha build
nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 day agoAlgorithms are definitely needed to discover good content. There are some good videos on Peertube, but its very difficult to find them due to all the low effort spam. Lemmy also had different algorithms from the beginning and no one ever complained about them.
The problem with algorithms used by Reddit, Facebook etc is that they are completely intransparent, and include factors which dont benefit the user, such as “engagement” or advertising. As long as Fediverse algorithms are focused on benefitting the user and are transparent there is nothing wrong with them.
Cattail@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I want to encourage fedizens and Internet user to collect their own data and run their own algorithms since it’s worked well for corporations in general but to keep using their services. Seems as though people enjoy algo based on their data.
It’s neat that fediverse has a general principle of not collecting user data, so if more people used fediverse instances more often then less Data going to corporations. This browser extension is outline of how collecting your own data can affect your experience with fediverse. There’s so much you can do with your data and data from api