Seeing stuff about reddit being posted to 10 different technology boards, plus reddit-themed ones, then reposted further just makes this whole idea a mess. Reposts have to be consolidated into a single comment thread.

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    The feed present on Kbin and Lemmy that delivers content that is “hot” is still an algorithm, it just isn’t a hyper-specific one like you’d see on Tik Tok

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      Sorting by new also is an algorithm.

      Not trolling here: I think this is something the fediverse will need to decide at some point. What are the acceptance criteria for timeline presentations? But this would also be a perfect example of diversity: don’t like the way our instance sorts your timeline? No problem, here’s some instances that do it differently.

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        The goal should be to allow users to choose their own algorithm, including third party algorithms you can install yourself or something.

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          Sure, but the algorithms themselves will have to be provided by the instance, so I guess different instance might make different choices, for example due to privacy concerns etc.

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            You could engineer it so users could provide their own algorithm.

            It would be a HARD engineering problem, but not impossible, IMO.

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      Yes, I meant “recommendation algorithm” or “based on dataming algorithm” - I should have been more clearer.
      We have various “sorting”, “time” and “weight/vote” based algorithms of course.