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by Avamander 2170 days ago
TikTok is a bad example. Claiming it's promoting "diverse content" is somehow rather funny.

* https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/03/tiktok-ow...

* https://www.altpress.com/news/tiktok-censorship-black-lives-...

* https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/26/tiktoks-l...

2 comments

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.