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Yeah the irony is not lost on me but I do come to hacker news for curated content via upvotes. That’s not what I want out of social media websites. Maybe I’m i
by nvr219 4y ago
Yeah the irony is not lost on me but I do come to hacker news for curated content via upvotes. That’s not what I want out of social media websites. Maybe I’m in the minority
- verdverm 4y agoThe problem is that we all want something a little different and they deploy algorithms that average out our individuality. The real breakthrough will be when someone makes a true digital assistant that filter and scores the internet on our behalf, for our actual betterment. Where well being is the primary optimization. I might also guess that our assistants will be physical before they are intellectual.
- dieselgate 4y agoNever understood why there’s not a “filter/algorithm” selection in Settings or something to allow a User to specify “news/social/business/whatever” Maybe makes sense as a dark pattern to give a User more than they want always
- verdverm 4y agoGoogle Ads has this for you, so you can control your ad preferences and blocks, as a user I wish twitter would understand that I'm not interested in family, pet, food, or vacation photos. I suspect if these platforms did better for us, we would spend less time there, and their profits would decline. Hence, they are not incentivized to do so because they are ad based rather than subscription based.