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Technology
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2: Do not post low effort posts
3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff
4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.
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Baseline requirement is that the algorithms should be open-source, user-customizable (filters), and subject to legal regulations (eg making sure they don't cause increased depression and suicides in preteen girls)
Basically what Lemmy has (new, hot, controversial, etc)
I strongly support an opt-in model. You are given a list of 'tags' that denote content and that are most popular, and you can add them to your home feed. The unselected tags simply show the most popular posts of the most popular unselected tags.
That's the system I think of at a glance, which I can already think of ways to game with bots, but I think there are likely much smarter folks out there who can work on solving those issues.
I prefer more granular control. I appreciate "controversial" and "sort by date" and "top post for past week/month/year"