Have you ever seen the torrent of garbage that is new posts on e.g. Reddit or Imgur? You only see decent posts on the ‘front page’ because some people sift thro

Have you ever seen the torrent of garbage that is new posts on e.g. Reddit or Imgur? You only see decent posts on the ‘front page’ because some people sift through that and filter out teenagers' low-effort attempts. YouTube has hours of video uploaded every minute. A non-centralized, context-less recommendation system would mean that you are offered those crap videos together with ones that are the standard for ‘good’ now. Just get into the long tail on any search results and see if you want those. A non-monopolized video discovery would be splendid, only who knows how to achieve that. Perhaps it would be more realistic to do the recommendations based on the numbers of ‘retweets’ in federated networks—in a more ‘social’ style instead of views (dunno if PeerTube already offers that). Also, an open system will be incessantly gamed.