This would push users toward local posts (especially on smaller instances) while still supporting a better distribution of user engagement over the threadiverse. And if you don’t trust that it was implemented correctly – you can simply check it by counting the amounts of posts against your chosen probabilities.
Edit: changed feed name to mixed-feed
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I'm going to say something completely taboo.
I want an algorithm. I want something to watch what I'm doing and serve me content that I'll enjoy.
There’s already an algorithm. The difference between an algorithm on Lemmy and Reddit is that the algorithm on Lemmy is public.
Where does the algorithm show up? Does it modify the all feed? Or the local?
I didn't know about this at all. Thanks!
It modifies the feed according to your sorting option, which uses different algorithms.
You can read more about here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
Meaning that it will store your preference in a per user file and learn from your behavior. Tracking your every like and every comment, measuring every word you posted against every tagged key words available and serving you the most probable posts that matches the most with your profile.
And of course this would be open to the public given the nature of the fediverse. And then advertisers would just waltz in and pluck it from the records.
Sure! I'm anonymous here anyway. It's the Internet. No one knows I'm a dog.
Well now, good boy, I guess!
Thank you, daddy
You have that on every other platform.
Ok. And?
And you can go there to get that.
Those don't have as good content.
A federated universe is a strange thing to try and gatekeep.
No its not. I don't think we want this place to be the same as all other places.