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Is this mysterious feed reader one that you made yourself? I agree about the need to have some means of filtering. This is a major weakness of RSS, alongside o

Is this mysterious feed reader one that you made yourself? I agree about the need to have some means of filtering. This is a major weakness of RSS, alongside onboarding and discovery. Algorithms serve the purpose of filtering well. The problem is their opacity.

PaulHoule 2y ago
What people are calling an "algorithm" is really a heuristic. In the public discourse over "algorithms", the definition seems to be "something that maximizes your (time on site|outrage|clicking)" and not the real definition In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm (/ˈælɡərɪðəm/ ⓘ) is a finite sequence of mathematically rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation. [1] By that definition any well-defined process that creates your feed (sorting chronologically, alphabetically) is an "algorithm"; in the machine learning age it is easy to make an algorithm that selects for anything at all, except for the capital-T Truth. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm