cyuThe German Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament has ditched X (Twitter) in favour of open-source decentralised Mastodon
This is great news. Algorithm optimized social networks are poison to society.
glacierIf algorithms are are not the default option and are not designed to generate profit for platforms and advertisers, then perhaps they could be a healthy way to discover new content
10EXP- Need to allow some level of user customisability.
Uranium3006I'd run my own frontend aginst the API that ranks a large number of posts from the last 24 hours in terms of personal relevance
Such an algorithm has to run server-side, since it needs access to the full database of content.
It would be possible to allow users to upload their own algorithms (for example via Web Assembly), but I don’t know about any service that allows for that.