there are tweaks that can be made. also I’m talking about an individual’s personal feed

if I open tiktok right now, my feed will differ from yours. because it’s personalized. reddit is a bad example because its not personalized.

if you’re seeing far right videos on your feed its because you’re engaging with that content. you’re feeding the algorithm.

don’t engage with that garbage and you won’t see it.

manipulated by whom? if it can be manipulated so that you get to see the content you like, I say thats fine.

if you mean manipulated by 3rd parties to sell ads, then that’s bad.

this isn’t a black and white thing. it can exist without being data to sell for ads. what matters is if the one hosting the videos is willing to sell that data.

if its kept to just your own personal usage data to make your experience a better one, that’s not a terrible thing.

tags are one way for sure. but then its difficult to find new stuff that might fit your interests that you don’t have tags for.

what does control over what they want to watch look like without an algorithm?

an algorithm doesn’t have to be a negative thing.

agreed. there is a way to keep that algorithm private. on a person to person case.

that information would just have to not be sold. thats the difference.

an algorithm wouldn’t be inherently evil. the data collected is what’s potentially dangerous. but if its kept to just your personal account, it could be quite safe

and make the app less of a chore to use.

i mean… a lot of the content on the fediverse is literally just lifted straight from the other “junk food” social media websites that were just named.

its just a federated experience. not a “healthy” one. I’m all for moving more people over to the fediverse but let’s maybe take it down a couple notches with the weird propaganda-esque ads?

it quite annoys me as well. “No annoying algorithms!”

…great. so it will never learn what content I actually like to see and will feed me random crap I don’t want to see.

i get like the same 5 videos of someone walking around outside and a couple of ads for stuff I’m not even remotely interested in.

i am so happy for you. unfortunately i am still waiting.

update: I am in! hooray!

(app looks clean af as well)

still waiting for an email about account registration from them.