No need to make every person categorize/rank their own content. But let them choose which of the 3rd party ranking algorithms they'd like to have serving them their feed today.
Why would that help? All the content is uncategorized. So what info can these "3rd party ranking algorithms" use to get you the content you want? You're going to get different flavors of Facebook.
Look at what Reddit does: all posts must be submitted to a subreddit, which categorizes it. Each sub upvotes and downvoted that content, which means that the "ranking algorithm" can be dumb as a bag of rocks. At any point, I can choose what content I want to browse without having to "switch algorithms".
The media is preoccupied with "the algorithms", but the problem is with websites that are nothing but a recommendation feed choosing from a formless content soup. It's constantly guessing, the best it can do is "you seem to like this account, I will keep giving you stuff from this person and related people". No concept of interests!
phailhaus|2 years ago
Look at what Reddit does: all posts must be submitted to a subreddit, which categorizes it. Each sub upvotes and downvoted that content, which means that the "ranking algorithm" can be dumb as a bag of rocks. At any point, I can choose what content I want to browse without having to "switch algorithms".
The media is preoccupied with "the algorithms", but the problem is with websites that are nothing but a recommendation feed choosing from a formless content soup. It's constantly guessing, the best it can do is "you seem to like this account, I will keep giving you stuff from this person and related people". No concept of interests!