Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Protect me from what I want




With the advent of the Fediverse generally and Mastodon specifically, for the first time we have a large-scale opportunity to experiment with algorithms who are written for people by people just because they're cool, or because they produce feeds that the programmer likes for herself, or that her Dad likes, or that she notices causes her kids to be less obsessive about screen time.

So let's stop saying "No algorithms!" because that's just wrong, and figure out how to get nice algorithms built, ones that primarily are there to serve humanity's best interests.

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