Scott ShapiroFor three years I managed to escape COVID. Today it came for me. My lord, it's been unbelievable bad. I could barely open my eyes yesterday I felt so sick. Doing better today, but bottom line: I would not recommend it.
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Arvind NarayananAlgorithms aren't the enemy. Chronological feeds don't scale and the signal-to-noise ratio will plummet if this ever gets popular. The real problems with today's algorithmic feeds are non-transparency, lack of choice, and optimizing for engagement instead of healthy discourse.
Open-source is a perfect opportunity to fix all this. Have there been any efforts to create a Mastodon instance with a (community governed) ranking algorithm? Is that technically feasible? Or is the idea simply anathema?