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There is a distinction to be made between "being okay with something existing" and "wanting to see/participate in it." The idea being that we should be okay wit
by keiferski 3y ago
There is a distinction to be made between "being okay with something existing" and "wanting to see/participate in it." The idea being that we should be okay with a lot of weird/undesirable stuff existing online (because the alternative of censorship is worse) but wanting this doesn't imply that we need to see it constantly or participate in it.
I still don't understand how a personalized filtering system hasn't become the default technological model of social media. I suppose it's because of power dynamics; no one is really incentivized to build such a thing and recommendation systems don't seem to work very well.