Tim ☑️ 🔭🌃📷🪨🚴🌳Mar 31

Anyone remember the days of #flickr #explore? 15-20yr ago I used to get excited to be in it. Now all I see is algorithm, algorithm, probably bots, algorithm.

My recent photo of Sh2-142 The Wizard nebula is doing "well" on flickr. 3815 views, 143 faves, 15 comments. Nice? But, at the risk of offending some people, every single comment there is a generic quasi-spam text that could equally apply to anything else in Explore.

Sigh.

#photography #algorithm #socialmedia #antisocialmedia #flickr

Show threadautumnstuff
ah...really dislike algo ya... social media mainly mainstream is all about that these days...alas!
Mar 31 at 4:58pmWeb
Show threadTim ☑️ 🔭🌃📷🪨🚴🌳Mar 31

@autumnstuff I remember *writing* an implementation of an "algorithm" for use with an RSS/news feed aggregator back in about 2004 or so. It was all fine and sensible and logical to me back then. The idea of "see more of what you like" still makes sense.

Think things got a bit out of hand when other people took the same idea and ran with it since though...