[anonytrary]

> "Elitist corperate control over mass media is great because I don't like what normal people do." -people in this hackernews thread

This seems blown out of proportion. "I don't like what normal people do, so I will probably not look at trending to find content" is what most people are saying.

[ramblerouser]

Fairtrending isn't about recommending stuff you personally are interested in. It's designed to acurately report what is actually popular and not just being promoted by Youtube. I think that went over the head of the people complaining that their personalized recommendations are more interesting to them.

[anonytrary]

I think everyone gets that trending isn't personalized. It's possible that a lot of people have no interest in what is objectively trending, and defer to personalized subscriptions and other feeds. I'd imagine that most people are interested in what is trending (otherwise, it wouldn't really be trending), but HN is hardly a realistic sample of most people, so you can expect people here to be surprised that X, Y and Z are trending over the world.