I find it very weird to be living in a country legalizing drugs and assisted suicide (even for depression) but simultaneously trying to severely curtail free speech, media freedom and passing legislation to jail people at risk of breaking the law who don’t meet the “conspiracy to commit” threshold".
ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
“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!”
John_McMurray@lemmy.world 9 months ago
BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
What exactly are you referring to here?
John_McMurray@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Been on the canadian news the last few days, federal Liberals are trying to bring in pre-crime legislation.
BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
This thread is about a mass shooter from New York. Are you lost?
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I enjoy using Lemmy mostly that way, just sorting the feed by new / hot / whatever and looking at new posts of random shit. Much more entertaining than video-spamming bullshit.
Hillock@feddit.de 9 months ago
No, there is too much content for that nowadays. YouTube has over 3 million new videos each day. Facebook, TikTok, Instagram also has ridiculous amounts of new posts every day. Browsing Reddit on New was a terrible experience on r/all or even many of the bigger subs. Even on the fediverse sorting by new is not enjoyable. You are swarmed with reposts, and content that’s entirely uninteresting to you.
It works in smaller communities but there it isn’t really necessary. You usually have an overview of all the content anyhow and it doesn’t matter how it’s ordered.
Any social media that plans on scaling up needs a more advanced system.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 9 months ago
So a paper encyclopedia set? How is Britannica doing?
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
People complain about mastodons lack of algorithms a lot. Its part of how misskey, ice shrimp, and catodon came to be