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My Feed, My Way

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Re: My Feed, My Way

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Post by gitowiec »

blfr wrote: post #21

Why do people (or at least politicians pretend to) believe that social networks are popular despite the content algos and not because of them? The reason Tik Tok blew up is because it shows you what you want to see without you twiddling with a dozen dials. Maybe giving people what they want is not great for them. I am ok with this argument. But then "giving people control" won't change anything. Vast majority of user…

Someone measured that if a user is teenager boy, it will take Tik Tok 9 minutest to serve misogynistic content...

Re: My Feed, My Way

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Post by blfr »

gitowiec wrote: post #51
blfr wrote: post #21

Why do people (or at least politicians pretend to) believe that social networks are popular despite the content algos and not because of them? The reason Tik Tok blew up is because it shows you what you want to see without you twiddling with a dozen dials. Maybe giving people what they want is not great for them. I am ok with this argument. But then "giving people control" won't change anything. Vast majority of user…

Someone measured that if a user is teenager boy, it will take Tik Tok 9 minutest to serve misogynistic content...

I was a teenage boy in the 90s and "girls are stupid" is definitely not a Tik Tok original. Yeah, yeah, scale matters but this is not in fact the first generation to discover sex differences or vices.

Re: My Feed, My Way

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Post by cyberrock »

repeekad wrote: post #11

This reminds me of the YouTube creator Technology Connections trying to engage with people on bluesky, which already provides feed customization and even lets you write code to build your own feed algorithms. He loosely coined the term "algorithmic complacency" to explain how users didn't like bluesky specifically because they had to explicitly choose who or what they wanted to follow, his fear being that especially…

Maybe he's right, but there are way more issues with Bluesky that affect user retention. For example the app seems to love logging users out if they have intermittent Internet or are using a VPN, or just because the app feels like it. It's an insane bug or security stance.

Meanwhile, Setlog is gaining popularity in east Asia, which definitely indicates there is some demand for friend-only social media. I think many Discord users are basically using Discord like that too. Giving users the choice is the right move.

Re: My Feed, My Way

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Post by King-Aaron »

tene80i wrote: post #49
King-Aaron wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because the people most severely impacted don't understand that they are being severely impacted.

Sure, there’s an argument for improving the default too. I was just replying to what I thought was someone saying “it doesn’t matter, most people won’t use it, give up”

Fair enough. I legitimately hate people who do that - gaslighting people into not wanting change. I don't even understand what drives that mentality half the time.

Re: My Feed, My Way

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Post by 8by3 »

rambambram wrote: post #53

With RSS I already do feeds my way.

Indeed,

Thats part of the premise, we don't need to invent new technologies when email/rss are already self curated / federated.

The missing piece is discovery.

Which is why in addition to allowing you to aggregate internal/external feeds into one place, each instance also shares each external feed its users have subscribed too, and each user can share who they read (like a blog roll).

Re: My Feed, My Way

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Post by pizzly »

Wouldn't the better way be is to make social media open? i.e. anyone can generate their own algorithm or chose from others who created them. I see that the social media companies could implement these requirements in the worse possible way to ensure that they opt right back in to "choose to opt in to having their default feed include personalised content recommended by the algorithm"

Re: My Feed, My Way

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Post by 8by3 »

colesantiago wrote: post #37
8by3 wrote: post #36

Or just use https://tuhat.net , >> 1K organic users in the last three months, ,with no marketing budget, and no VC funding. - Chronological feed of local posts + external RSS feeds in one place - Email newsletters / RSS - Journaling feature - Book log / reviews - No Algorithms - No like button Opensource if you want to spin up your own instance.

I don't know what I am looking at here?

Ha, fair. The home page is a global feed of all users, limited to one post per day per user.

One of many potential solutions to an alternative to todays social media – like substack, but without the shitty sides of social media.

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