Tiktok exposes me to all kinds of viewpoints I’d never have even thought to search for.
Lemmy is a circle jerk by comparison.

When you say “build your own algorithm” what you really mean is “decide who is allowed in my echo chamber, and what is the sort order of the content from those people”. You can do that on Tiktok too, it’s called the “following” feed, smh.

Not with their onboarding.

(Also, familiarity is a kind of UX lubricant, all on its own)

When you sort your feed by hot vs top vs new, that’s already what you’re doing kinda.

But the platform has to have the data to support the algorithm, so you can’t just “load in” whatever algorithm you want. Besides, that sounds like a security nightmare for the platform lol

Did someone call for me???

Fwiw Tiktok apparently just open sourced their algorithm a week or so ago.

I wonder if loops will provide it as an option

Ok boomer

A lot of people are going to rednote as a show of protest:

• these people have had their data mined since they were babies, they’ve been taught by the market since birth that their data isn’t something they should value
• then they’re told that it’s bad that these other people can access their data, with no explanation as to why it’s any different
• while at the same time being told that it’s totally fine for the folks who are already mining your data to sell it to the people who shouldn’t have your data

So they’re basically saying “you’re lying, and your explanation contradicts your previous behavior, so I’m gonna do the exact opposite of what you want”
Again because they don’t actually care about their data

I mean… That was exactly the right thing to do.
Respond as fast as possible as clearly as possible.

But looking back on it, it is pretty fucking funny to read.

I love the potential of a digital dash.
I hate the wasted potential of actual digital dashes.

Let me fuckin customize it.
Let me put whatever gauges I want wherever I want. I know that the data is available over the CAN bus, let me fuckin see it.
Dynamically change the layout if something important happens I need to keep an eye on, but wouldn’t normally need to worry about

I saw an interesting post that said

All electronics are 100% efficient in the winter