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From another corner of the "search" universe, I get most of my daily information doses through the lens of a collection of RSS feeds I've built up over the year
by gen220 4y ago
From another corner of the "search" universe, I get most of my daily information doses through the lens of a collection of RSS feeds I've built up over the years. My feed collection is intolerant to toxic content, although I still see random toxic stuff on the "wild web" (YT, FB, etc.) every now and again.
Does it put me in a bubble? Yeah. But it's a bubble of my own design, and it's a pretty nice place from my POV, that reflects my real world interests, hobbies, etc.
I see goggles as a parallel system for "I'm looking for something specific" search.
I think Goggles might turn out to be a mild retardant to toxic bubble formation, because toxic content is rocket fuel for the kind of "engagement" metrics that google/youtube/twitter/fb have spent the last decade min-maxing.
IMO, existing "search" players (Google, FB, Twitter) are culpable for toxic echo chamber formation, only to the extent that they push toxic content "by default". By allowing users to fine-tune their weights, Brave+Goggles is attempting to dislodge this norm by introducing user feedback into the equation. Like you, I think it's a good idea.
Some people will always opt-in to toxic bubbles, but I think that's more of a human/society problem and not one for a search player to solve.