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First search for a commodity item returned pages full of conspiracy theories and then drifted in to anti-vax territory.

by Jemm 3y ago

marginalia_nu 3y ago
Interesting, what did you search for?
HeckFeck 3y ago
The unfiltered Internet in all its glory!
shanebellone 3y ago
I yearn for an exclusionary Internet. Most voices don't matter.
- manuelmoreale 3y ago
  Would you mind explain 1) why you want that and 2) who decides which voices do matter?
  - shanebellone 3y ago
    "1) why you want that" Universal broadcast does not work (beneficially for society) in an industry built to monetize reach. Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but voices are not equal in utility or worth. "2) who decides which voices do matter?" This is always the problem, isn't it? I don't have an answer for you.
    - manuelmoreale 3y ago
      Isn't 1 just the result of 2? It's because we don't have an answer and because there probably isn't an answer to the second question that we need universal broadcast as you called it. We could get away from it only if we figure out an answer to the second question but I suspect we'll never get to an answer.
      - shanebellone 3y ago
        "Isn't 1 just the result of 2?" Only in that reach will continue to be monetized regardless of its impact on society.
- pulpfictional 3y ago
  Isn't it already?
SinePost 3y ago
That doesn't actually sound very different from my experience with major search engines beyond the first page. I've taken it as a bit of an law that the Internet outside of large centralized and/or moderated sites gets very fringe very quickly. Since the whole point of the search engine is to display noncommercial sites, users will inevitably face thousands of self-published blogs of varying beliefs, quality, and truthiness. As these fringe sites take up more domain names by total volume than mainstream platforms (there is only one Twitter, Facebook, et al.), I am not surprised at all that they seem to be even more voluminous here than on commercial search engines.

First search for a commodity item returned pages full of conspiracy theories and then drifted in to anti-vax territory.

by Jemm 3y ago

First search for a commodity item returned pages full of conspiracy theories and then drifted in to anti-vax territory.

marginalia_nu 3y ago

Interesting, what did you search for?

HeckFeck 3y ago

The unfiltered Internet in all its glory!

shanebellone 3y ago

I yearn for an exclusionary Internet. Most voices don't matter.

manuelmoreale 3y ago
Would you mind explain 1) why you want that and 2) who decides which voices do matter?
- shanebellone 3y ago
  "1) why you want that" Universal broadcast does not work (beneficially for society) in an industry built to monetize reach. Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but voices are not equal in utility or worth. "2) who decides which voices do matter?" This is always the problem, isn't it? I don't have an answer for you.
  - manuelmoreale 3y ago
    Isn't 1 just the result of 2? It's because we don't have an answer and because there probably isn't an answer to the second question that we need universal broadcast as you called it. We could get away from it only if we figure out an answer to the second question but I suspect we'll never get to an answer.
    - shanebellone 3y ago
      "Isn't 1 just the result of 2?" Only in that reach will continue to be monetized regardless of its impact on society.
pulpfictional 3y ago
Isn't it already?

SinePost 3y ago

That doesn't actually sound very different from my experience with major search engines beyond the first page. I've taken it as a bit of an law that the Internet outside of large centralized and/or moderated sites gets very fringe very quickly. Since the whole point of the search engine is to display noncommercial sites, users will inevitably face thousands of self-published blogs of varying beliefs, quality, and truthiness. As these fringe sites take up more domain names by total volume than mainstream platforms (there is only one Twitter, Facebook, et al.), I am not surprised at all that they seem to be even more voluminous here than on commercial search engines.