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Australia to force social media platforms to allow users to opt out of algorithms (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [M] to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] 5 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Technically sorting your Lemmy feed by Hot or Active is an algorithm.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I've always wanted to have a way to give users their own options to use open source algorithms or create their own, but I don't know how doable that is, since part of it is also how content gets tagged, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 15 hours ago (1 child)

    i mean theoretically you could just find the sorting algorithms in the lemmy source code, add your own, and ask the instance admin to pwetty pwease apply that patch.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

    Why would I do that on a low-volume instance? I still sort by New on Reddit.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Sorting by new? That's also an algorithm.

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  • [–] 2 points 20 hours ago

    Sending the HTTP request and receiving and processing the response is a sequence of countless algorithms.

    It seems the common meaning for "algorithmic feed" is actually "personalized feed" or "targeted feed". They adapt based on the user, not necessarily the community as a whole.

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