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I'm happy to see this and might give it a try as I've often wanted RSS + recommendations. I like being tipped off to things I wouldn't have found on my own and

I'm happy to see this and might give it a try as I've often wanted RSS + recommendations. I like being tipped off to things I wouldn't have found on my own and like RSS as a standard protocol. I've often wondered if it could all be done in some kind of decentralized way though, just to avoid a central server for the recommendations. I'm not sure my interest in the decentralized part comes from a privacy concern per se, it's more of a pure interest, "would this work" thing, maybe with a bit of robustness interest too.

jacobobryant 3y ago
I've thought about this as well. Privacy is actually one impediment I think. If you make everyone's raw usage data public (so that anyone can use it to train their own recommendation model), some of the training data might be de-anonymizable. However there's plenty of data out there that people are already happy to make public, so the privacy thing probably isn't a show-stopper. e.g. Reddit seems like it'd be a rich source of training data. Twitter too, if it were more open. I'd keep an eye on Bluesky!