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RSS works great if the amount of content is manageable. The problem social media feeds (or any other feed for that matter) solve is curation/filtering. Hacker
by pflenker 2y ago
RSS works great if the amount of content is manageable. The problem social media feeds (or any other feed for that matter) solve is curation/filtering.
Hacker News does the Dame thing, albeit with different mechanisms than classical social media.
- imiric 2y agoWhy do you think social media feeds "solve" curation? They merely sort the content according to some predefined criteria, but you will still be overwhelmed by the stream, and likely miss a lot of content, just as you would if there was no algorithm at all. That's all curation essentially is: sorting. Social media companies claim that this is a good thing since everyone's feed is personalized, but these are just empty platitudes. They never know exactly what everyone wants to see at any moment. If they did, they wouldn't show me any ads or promoted content to begin with. The things I want to see changes constantly, so the only sorting and filtering functionality I want is one which I'm allowed to control myself.
- pflenker 2y agoWhether or not something solves the problem depends on the person having the problem. For avid social media users, the curation it brings seems to solve the problem better than other mechanisms. For you (or me) it doesn’t.
- hgyjnbdet 2y agoI consider social media curation a problem in an of itself, I've no evidence, but consider it a driving force behind a lot of society's current problems. Too easy to filter bubble and manipulate the masses.