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> creating a recommendation system that is based on concious curation, not statistical metric That's good, but that's still a recommendation of authors/channel
by dorfsmay 3y ago
> creating a recommendation system that is based on concious curation, not statistical metric
That's good, but that's still a recommendation of authors/channels, not articles. It's still who vs what. For me the concept of "subreddits" is the best we've achieved in in terms of social sharing. It was about what over who. You picked a subject, followed a subreddit, and found articles, videos etc... about that subject. Conscious curation on specific subjects.
I still use the old.reddit.com, but few non-tech people do and the primary Reddit interface has pushed people away from the platform and a lot of the smaller subreddits are drying up.
I understand why the changes were made and it brings the question of how can we create social sharing based on subjects that is either distributed (but easy to use by non-tech people) or centralised and profitable?
- chriswarbo 3y agoFor those who don't know, Reddit provide feeds at URLs like `/r/foo/.rss` (although they're actually Atom...) Annoyingly this doesn't work when combining subreddits, e.g. `/r/foo+bar+baz` is HTML containing posts from those three subreddits, but `/r/foo+bar+baz/.rss` only includes posts from one :(