• Dharma Curious@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    Curious as someone who absolutely does not understand things. Would it be possible to create an open source algorithm that could be used successfully? As in, you view certain types of content, similar content is recommended, home feeds are personalized, et cetera, but without the generally horrible shit that comes along with algorithm feeds currently?

    • MariaRomanov@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Yes, there are many successful open source algorithms, so there is no reason to believe a content recommending algorithm that is open-source could not be successful. If you’re using Lemmy and you sort by “hot”, you are already using one…