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I'm surprised we don't get more control over our "feeds" on some platforms - it would be useful signal for advertisers I'd imagine, so there's a win-win aspect.
by pbhjpbhj 6y ago
I'm surprised we don't get more control over our "feeds" on some platforms - it would be useful signal for advertisers I'd imagine, so there's a win-win aspect.
On Reddit I'd like to filter out (ie remove) all posts with animal pictures.
I keep coming back to Slashdot's model of democratised curation.
- rightbyte 6y agoThe FB algorithm of feeding you unchronoligal crap instead of what your friends write seems to get more ad views since you scroll more. It is really user hostile and are depleting there user pool in the long term.
- zo1 6y agoIt's the same reason Google doesn't let you have more control over the search results. If they give out granular-enough permissions / tooling, then plugins and other tools would be somehow able to make your FB/Google experience akin to a completely different site, with very little control on their part. As a bit of an analogy: They want to be the television that you look at your content through as well as the content provider/curator, but they also don't want to be forced into being just the radio-broadcasting infrastructure provider which is all that they really are if you drill down far enough. Oh and ads, of course.