Track_ShovelMar 9

Boredom is universal

https://slrpnk.net/post/35089361

Show threadrumbaMar 9

Hell yes, get rid of anything that’s an algorithm.

If you can’t run out of content on the platform you’re on, it’s a bad thing.

Use youtube clients that follow users

Browse text platforms that let you follow communities.

TT, IG, /all, and shorts are where your brain goes to die.

Show threadTJA!Mar 9
Everything that’s on your phone has an algorithm. It’s like saying I don’t eat things with chemicals in it.
Show threadspittingimageMar 9
Group chats with Friends? Games? Ebooks? There might be algorithms associated with those somewhere, but you’d have to go digging for them.
Show threadTJA!Mar 9

Chats: an algorithm decides the order of the messages shown Games: a lot of algorithms everywhere. Ebooks: eg algorithms are used to decode the drm of you are using a Kindle.

You don’t need to dig very deep.

Show threadCarrotMar 10
A pedant’s job is never done, huh?
Show threadmfed1122
We should use technical words in a technically correct way, or else public discourse becomes obscured and confused. Like what Discord did with the word “Server”, it’s not innocuous even when people are doing it by accident.
Mar 10 at 6:42pmWeb
Show threadCarrotMar 10

Language isn’t set in stone, and when people use the term “algorithm” when referring to the system in place that decides what content is put in front of them, people understand what they mean. No one gets this algorithm mixed up with the math/computer science term algorithm.

The discord one is slightly different, but I’d argue it isn’t that harmful, as Discord “servers” function effectively as a server from a user point of view. The only problem with this nomenclature is that it somewhat implies to a layperson that there is some form of privacy/security in place, which there isn’t.