Comment on Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems?

• rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s just an algorithm, all it takes is someone deciding they want to do it.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Huh? What algorithm? Where?

    Lemmy has no algorithm in the way that you mean it.

    Which is to say: there are a number of sort options like “top”, “hot” or “scaled” which work purely on the basis of upvotes or downvotes and don’t involve the actual content within the posts whatsoever.

    It also has no “suggested” or “for you” and no personalization or data harvesting, the sort being based purely on upvotes or downvotes also doesn’t artificially skew the content politically in any which way.

    It’s also completely open source so if that changed, not only would people find out immediately, but they’d be able to fork it and undo the change and maintain their own version.

    Any instance then using an unfair sort feature would be defederated from.

    So I don’t understand what you mean at all to be honest.

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