surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m going to say something completely taboo.
I want an algorithm. I want something to watch what I’m doing and serve me content that I’ll enjoy.
Meaning that it will store your preference in a power user file and learn from your behavior. Tracking your every like and every comment, measuring every word you posted against every tagged key words available and serving you the most probable posts that matches the most with your profile.
And of course this would be open to the public given the nature of the fediverse. And then advertisers would just waltz in and pluck it from the records.
Sure! I’m anonymous here anyway. It’s the Internet. No one knows I’m a dog.
Well now, good boy, I guess!
Thank you, daddy
You have that on every other platform.
Ok. And?
And you can go there to get that.
Those don’t have as good content.
A federated universe is a strange thing to try and gatekeep.
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 year ago
There’s already an algorithm. The difference between an algorithm on Lemmy and Reddit is that the algorithm on Lemmy is public.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Where does the algorithm show up? Does it modify the all feed? Or the local?
I didn’t know about this at all. Thanks!
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 year ago
It modifies the feed according to your sorting option, which uses different algorithms.
You can read more about here: join-lemmy.org/docs/…/03-votes-and-ranking.html