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Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)

submitted 8 months ago by btaf45@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 45 points 8 months ago (2 children)

"Noooo it's our algorithm we can't be held liable for the program we made specifically to discover what people find a little interesting and keep feeding it to them!"

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I wonder if you built a social media site where the main feature was that the algorithm just showed you things in sequential order like in the old days, would it be popular

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

I enjoy using Lemmy mostly that way, just sorting the feed by new / hot / whatever and looking at new posts of random shit. Much more entertaining than video-spamming bullshit.

[–] Hillock@feddit.de 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No, there is too much content for that nowadays. YouTube has over 3 million new videos each day. Facebook, TikTok, Instagram also has ridiculous amounts of new posts every day. Browsing Reddit on New was a terrible experience on r/all or even many of the bigger subs. Even on the fediverse sorting by new is not enjoyable. You are swarmed with reposts, and content that's entirely uninteresting to you.

It works in smaller communities but there it isn't really necessary. You usually have an overview of all the content anyhow and it doesn't matter how it's ordered.

Any social media that plans on scaling up needs a more advanced system.

[–] fosstulate@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 8 months ago

Fuck scale.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 months ago

People complain about mastodons lack of algorithms a lot. Its part of how misskey, ice shrimp, and catodon came to be

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

So a paper encyclopedia set? How is Britannica doing?