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I’m convinced the ai recommendation audience is the origin of the “death of the internet”
It certainly seems like a watershed moment where the primary purpose of our machinery has shifted to serve the machines instead of the people.
Can't you just... not look at it? github is not a social website; I see no reason to ever visit the home page.
>github is not a social website you may not like it, but Github has always been a social website, and now more than ever, just like LinkedIn.
Github isn’t TikTok
Wont somebody please think of the shareholders?
/s
> Algorithmic feeds are always hostile to the user….They limit what a user sees…never encountered a situation where an algorithmic feed made things better I don’t know if Github should do algorithmic feeds. That said, my literal job description is to design an algorithmic feed for a tv news app. That’s what I’ve done - written an algo that decides what news gets shown, in what order => implicitly means a whole bunch…
Once upon a time, people got their news from approximately 3 "kinds" of places: - newspapers, locally managed, locally printed, locally distributed - radio, somewhere between locally and nationally managed, recorded, broadly distributed - television, probably regionally or nationally managed, maybe locally recorded, also broadly distributed.
And for these things they had between several and tens of choices to select in to their preferences, interests, and alignments. They got to self-select the 'algorithm' they viewed information through. There was obviously an algorithm here, and in spite of golden-age glasses it was a racist, sexist, deeply problematic algorithm, but it was at least chosen by people in your community.
Now though? Everything gets sucked up into some megacorporation's orbit through a rolling katamari of companies. We have facebook and twitter and things that will eventually be bought by facebook or twitter and approximately 2-3 companies that own every newspaper, radio station, and television station on the planet.
There's no choice here anymore. Your algorithm is chosen by someone else, and if by some chance an upstart comes along to break out of that monotony it's inevitable that they'll be sucked up into the katamari eventually for the sin of being successful at bucking the trend, and then they will be just like everything else within a year.
So you can do your best to provide a fresh, reasonable algorithm that does some good and helps people find something. But in the end, no matter how hard you try, it's gonna end up just like everything else and be a slushy mass of stuff that makes people angry to get money out of them.
Nobody asked GitHub to become a social media platform. Why not improve search instead? When I want to find something, I will look for it, and know what I’m looking for. There’s no point in pushing a bunch of random repos in my face with an algorithm that can and will be abused.
Edit: somehow search autocorrected to support.
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Come on, if you never looked at any of the social stuff in Github I bet any new recommendation system isn't going to bother you either. Unless they actively undermine their code/repo search functionality to push social stuff, let them do whatever they want for people who actually like browsing GitHub? (Not that I can imagine who actually browses GitHub)
Hey, we've seen this show a dozen times before. They are definitely going to undermine their core functionality to push social stuff, and for exactly the reason you gave: nobody uses it and they want to force you to.