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by martin-t 522 days ago
I am increasingly convinced we need to separate content storage from recommendation algorithms.

When an organization does both, it has perverse incentives such as maximizing add-profit or user-engagement by building echo chambers instead of doing what benefits the users - such as maximizing truth-seeking and getting an accurate picture of opinions among the general population.

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Agreed. I am quite pessimistic about what can be achieved though.