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Ban algorithmic recommendation. It's the only way people actually start organizing and curating content. You know, like libraries do.
by hypertele-Xii 5y ago
Ban algorithmic recommendation. It's the only way people actually start organizing and curating content. You know, like libraries do.
- naasking 5y agoInteresting thought I hadn't considered before. Without algorithms, all aggregated content was curated by humans. With the advent of algorithms, a lot of this has probably stopped because humans just can't keep up. Sometimes that's a good and useful thing, like with search engines. Clearly not always though.
- Mezzie 5y agoI was one of those humans, and it's more that the algorithms were initially designed under the assumption that we would keep doing that work for free, forever, but once the communities we were doing it for were destroyed, why bother? Also there was a lot of pushback and poo-pooing the human element; lots of well-regarded (at the time) people saying that there was no future in human-curated content, and I know that I (as a young person) believed them. Look at the cool stuff they were making; they have to be right! They're smart adults, they would know, right? It just stopped being fun to curate.