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by hunter-2 1691 days ago
I think the need for AI/machine learning to predict what you want has kind of brought us here.

Imagine a Facebook or Instagram not mining your data to show you what they think you want - the results in your timeline will be a grand hash of all the think that's new and happening.

That would have been a vastly different experience.

Except for perhaps Reddit, every other big site today personalizes your content and this has made the internet boring for me.

The only place i discovew new content is Reddit, but again its front page is full of memes and American content.

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> Except for perhaps Reddit

The Reddit apparent algorithms I experienced create a very biased content proposal: browsing its content with an account has the effect of increasing restrictions in the offer instead of its expansion. (Again a huge basic fault: it "corners" you into a claustrophobic virtual reality, instead of enhancing freedom (today this should be a theoretical tenet) and "pluralism with relevance". Not only that: it seems to decide your affiliations with the dumbest prejudice.)