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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 05:52:37 JST Alexandre Oliva

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   • Arvind Narayanan
   I'd rather have the algorithm on the client side, under user control and respecting freedom, than on the (usually shared) instance, for reasons detailed mainly in the last slide of
   https://www.fsfla.org/~lxoliva/#santa
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     Arvind Narayanan (randomwalker@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 05:52:48 JST Arvind Narayanan

     Algorithms aren't the enemy. Chronological feeds don't scale and the signal-to-noise ratio will plummet if this ever gets popular. The real problems with today's algorithmic feeds are non-transparency, lack of choice, and optimizing for engagement instead of healthy discourse.

     Open-source is a perfect opportunity to fix all this. Have there been any efforts to create a Mastodon instance with a (community governed) ranking algorithm? Is that technically feasible? Or is the idea simply anathema?