Evan ProdromouMar 4

Can we create and use social networking algorithms on the Fediverse that serve our own personal goals, such as more and deeper personal relationships, career advancement, and more participative citizenship?

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Yes
39.9%
Yes, but...
31.9%
No, but...
4%
No
24.2%
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@evan yes, but we must keep being vigilant that it's still dangerous in terms of what we can uninentionally inflict on ourselves. An echo chamber or rage maximizing algorithm is worse when controlled by an external entity with specific financial goals and complete disregard for human wellbeing. It is however still bad (even if a bit less) when self imposed by a person. We still think of social interactions the way we did pre-internet and we certainly have the emotional reactions to social interactions that we elvoled to have for (tens of?) thousands of years before the internet.

I'm assuming what someone already mentioned here, that said algorithms will be somehow entirely user controlled. Anything else is bound to end up as what we have in corporate social media.
Mar 4 at 8:45pmWeb