Why is having no algorithm a good thing? #CoSo
@OminousHallways Instead of having some engineers building magical machine learning to decide what you see and what you don’t, you get to see every single post on the firehose. To make it more palatable you can filter it and split off new columns so you see exactly what you want.
@ScionAltera How does that promote or restrict interactions?
@OminousHallways On CoSo everyone's posts go in the firehose, so you have equal opportunity to interact with everyone on the site. Nothing is de-prioritized automatically for you unless you actively filtered/muted/blocked it. On the bird site you do not get an equal chance to interact with every other user because your feed is pre-filtered before you ever see it.
@OminousHallways It gets more interesting when you start thinking about what would happen if their pre-filtering had nefarious goals. If they show you things to make you mad, or convince you of something, or to promote products on the sly.
@ScionAltera I can see positives and negatives to that. I guess we shall see