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by throwayws 2159 days ago
See TikTok [1] as an example. The idea is to mix in different content. Making the goal not to match perfectly but to match different topics.

- [1]: https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/how-tiktok-recommends-vide...

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TikTok may only allow 90% of videos, but its algorithm is biased toward exploration of random subjects.

Youtube may allow 99.9%, but its algorithm is biased toward what the user has recently watched.

I find diversity of opportunity more important than diversity of outcome and think of the first as actual diversity.
I mean topics different from the usual exact matches. I had only that word in mind. Sorry for the confusion, I fixed it.

I didn't know about this though. Thanks for mentioning it.