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‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 8 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit::A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the ‘front page of the internet’ is changed for ever

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[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well said! I agree with almost everything, except I still want algorithms. I think I'd say "free from algorithms that serve corporate interests" instead. Algorithms that help me find content I genuinely enjoy are sorely missed.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think algorithms can certainly be useful tools, but if they can somehow be made client-side, transparent in what they do, and customizable/replaceable, that would be ideal. In that scenario, they'd actually be working for the end user instead of the platform owner.

[–] CallumWells@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

With Lemmy you probably can do that "fairly easily"