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I love the idea, but how will content discovery work?

In my experience with activitypub servers. Socializing as in actually talking to people is great, but content discovery can be kind of horrid

Sometimes we do want an algorithm or some means of discovering the popular content :nkoThink:

#fedi #loops #pixelfed

Like 16 March at 17:37 | Wall-to-wall | Open on baka.social

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marathon

@CupofDalek

Algo's have no place on the Fediverse! If you want that go use the surveillance captialism, social sites! If you can't discover content with hashtags, you in my opinion aren't trying. It's not difficult.

@pixelfed @loops

16 March at 19:45 | Open on liberdon.com

TheCoolest

@marathon @CupofDalek @pixelfed @loops

Blackbox algos have no place here. Transparent algos can be fine. Curation doesn't always mean surveillance, sometimes it can be handled clientside. There are other techniques.

The thing about TikTok is, one would be mistaken to think its selling point is shortform vertical videos. It's not. Vine failed, YouTube Shorts are unpopular, the format isn't the thing TikTok gets right. What they get right is their algorithm.

17 March at 6:19 | Open on dftba.club

ShadeOW

@CupofDalek
In this case, I think an algorithm (not complex just a basic algorithm) is required. Because without algorithm, I think the content discovery will be horrible

16 March at 20:38 | Open on piaille.fr

Lunar Taiga

@CupofDalek I think subscribing to hashtags would probably be a great way to do discovery.

16 March at 21:15 | Open on wetdry.world

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