This might just be the worst Press Release in the history of the planet.
(Apparently itβs already been deleted by the leader of the βAngry Victoriansβ political party as it has so many demonstrable lies in it.)
Algorithms 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?
What an utter failure #COP27 was. No real progression on ensuring we stay under 1.5C of warming & the 'loss & damage' fund for 'developing nations' is just a agreement to establish it, nothing critical is set in stone. Political 'leaders' condemn us.
The big news of COP27 was agreement to establish a fund for βloss and damageβ. But many lamented the summitβs overall outcome, saying it falls short of a sufficient response to the climate crisis.
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