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I kind of disagree. Thats why rss failed. It requires the user to set it up before it works. And I may never leave my comfort zone, if setting up what to fol
by basch 7y ago
I kind of disagree. Thats why rss failed. It requires the user to set it up before it works. And I may never leave my comfort zone, if setting up what to follow is my choice. I dont know what I dont know. If I dont know the experts to follow, guiding me to choose experts seems silly. Just do it for me. Let the experts pick the other experts.
There is a huge benefit to everybody in a community seeing the same page. Whether its hckrnews, drudge report, front page of wsj, if everybody sees the same page, there is a social water cooler effect of "hey did you see" "yeah."
I just think with the "infinitely customized to you" we are trapping people in a constant cycle of always consuming more of the same, while also fragmenting our sense of community and identity. We get stuck in the filter bubbles we choose. These two articles combined together make me feel trapped.
https://www.vox.com/2014/5/20/5730762/buzzfeeds-founder-used-to-write-marxist-theory-and-it-explains https://www.vox.com/2014/5/20/5730762/buzzfeeds-founder-used...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7-30a0-9a0a-3ff76e8bfe58 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7...