Should require age verification to turn the algorithms back on. Better yet, take away the option to turn them on.
Should require age verification to turn the algorithms back on. Better yet, take away the option to turn them on.
Opt-out is pussy shit. Why do they care about being disruptive to an industry that is destroying the minds of everyone on the planet?
People really don’t understand what ‘algorithm’ means. You can’t turn off all algorithms to determine what appears in your feed. If you do that, you would get nothing in your feed at all. But, there are many different algorithms and you can give power to the user in choosing which one(s) to use. Only content from your contacts? New first? Highest upvotes first? A mix? Payed content how and where? And so on.
Small pet peeve of mine…
People might not know what "algorithm" means, but they do know what "the algorithm" means.
The algorithm: Personalized recommendations over which you have opaque control.
When tracking talking about legislation, being precise is important. Because as present the law is both useless and unenforceable, on top of being demagogic
Edit: thanks autocorrect that completely killed my sentence
The news headline is not the text of the legislation. What people understand and what's appropriate to put into legislation are two different things.
This is the equivalent of those people that turn up in threads discussing generative artificial intelligence and try to correct everyone's use of "AI" as shorthand for that specific technology. It's pedantic grandstanding with no real purpose - everyone actually involved in the discussion understands what they're talking about.
I disagree. Legislation is the scenario where specific language is most important. If social media platforms can prove that the law is impossible to follow as written, they are much more likely to nullify any benefit it might have intended.
Also, I think you overestimate the average person's understanding of what an algorithm is.
When drafting legislation you're right, but she is not actively drafting legislation, she is proposing an idea to the public.
Good communication means tailoring your language to your audience.
This was your original Facebook feed. Chronological updates from your friends. Like a stream of shower thoughts, kid updates, silly shit someone's family member said etc. I deleted Facebook when it was still like this, so it's kept that vibe in my mind.
Original Instagram too. I never went back after they changed it like a decade(?) ago.
There is more information in the article itself about which algorithms it does not consider to be algorithms:
Opt-out options for algorithms would give users the choice to make their social media feeds only feature content from friends and groups they choose to follow.
IMO it would be much better if instead of mandating doing it a particular way like this, they pushed for creation of open standards like exposing an API to allow third party clients to implement their own content filtering.
Dunno, I guess - new first, only your contacts - is KIND of an algorithm, but I don't know that anyone would call that an algorithm.
Any systematic method of decision is an algorithm, so it is an algorithm.
Usually you also want to add contacts-of-contacts posts if they are relevant “enough”, so you need to define what that means. New first often gives you a lot of crap and hides more interesting content (have you tried it on Reddit?), so that’s not the preferred algorithm even in the best case scenario.
And here we are, deep in algorithm making.
Usually you also want to add contacts-of-contacts posts if they are relevant “enough”, so you need to define what that means [...]
lol no
This is like talking to an addict.
I can decide who I want to follow. I hate it when the "algorithm" decides when something wouldn't be interesting and hides it from me when I specifically followed someone.
Also, contacts of contacts can be reshared by my contacts if it would be interesting, so I don't want an algorithm deciding that I need to see it.
Basically, show me a timeline of my followed contacts sorted by new and stop trying to decide what I should see for me.
...You should make sure you know the actual technical definition of an algorithm if you're gonna be semantically pedantic.
Speaking in actual technical terms; an algorithm is by definition a finite set of instructions, so technically any endless feed is no longer "an algorithm", it is the result of looping an algorithm.
Social media began as “timeline” - in fact on most services like facebook it was called TIMELINE because it showed - you guessed it - posts, that happened, in order. And guess what happened if you ran out? You started to see the same stuff as yesterday, got bored, and logged off.
There’s no need for gatekeeping here, and yes every single company could make this change if they so desired.
Gatekeeping technology is a gigantic pet peeve of most people’s
thanks for using Leebra!
go to feed...
They better make it an account wide change. None of this bullshit where you go to the chronological view and then it goes back to "Top Posts" immediately after you do anything
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