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Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think (usher.dev)
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[–] azalty@jlai.lu 9 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

No algorithm makes social networks so annoying. Lemmy is so much annoying because of this. I always see the same stuff, aka US news and some shitposts, the usual upvoted and trending stuff

There’s no discovery algorithm and no way to see posts from smaller subscribed communities easily. Each sorting method returns non-interesting posts.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Sort by new is your answer here.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Weird, I have my subscribed feeds from which I always see posts but I regularly see new stuff from subs I am not subscribed to and regularly it's something interesting

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

We need open source, local running, use tunable, auditable, collectively shareable content discovery algorithm

[–] azalty@jlai.lu 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

All for it, except maybe for it to run locally. An instance running it will be faster as it already has all posts and comments stored.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

I want it all in a physical object in my home, that I can throw in the furnace any time. I don't mind the extra milliseconds, I want it in my computer not someone else's computer aka the cloud

[–] azalty@jlai.lu 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

People say algorithms hook you and make you dependent: they show you the stuff you want, so you stay for longer. If I didn’t want to see stuff I want, I wouldn’t go to Lemmy…

[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They really do. Most of these algorithms have been developed by the same people that work at casinos algorithms. Lemmy is a forum like, social media.

[–] azalty@jlai.lu 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sure they do, but I want them. It doesn’t have to be dumb content. It can make you discover and learn things while being addicting.

[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Somewhat yes but it also enables echo chambers