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by chiliap2 3505 days ago
A Reddit alternative where the ranking for posts was personalized to each user. The ranking would be based the similarity between the voting history of the people who've voted compared to your own voting history. Think Netflix recommendation algorithm for Reddit.
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Couldn't this simply exacerbate the very problem of echo chambers in social media?
It might not be great for political discussion, but just fine for people looking for discussions on their favorite TV show or programming language.
I just want a "best" like sort mechanism that weights stories based on the average or maximum number of votes on each sub-reddit. Sometime there is a very voted story in an interesting sub-reddit but it only has 50 or so votes because it is very niche