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  • sexy_peach@feddit.de
    11·
    3 years ago

    Thanks that’s such an interesting article.

    Mastodon, or its derivative services, can massively improve by giving you the choice of an OPEN algorithm to use on your feed. The default time-stamp based feed is fine, but would I like to have, with one click of a button, the same feed based on the open-source recommendation engine “Engine A”, and switch to another “Engine B” just to see how the feed changes? You bet!

    This would be a cool option.

    • weex@lemmy.ml
      6·
      3 years ago

      This is the first I’ve heard of an alternate feed algorithm and it would be interesting to test. Has one been implemented anywhere yet?

        • weex@lemmy.ml
          8·
          3 years ago

          In regards to algorithms, I always assumed there was no budget to do the extra processing and that’s probably true for the massive machine learning R&D projects that the likes of Twitter can fund, but if people really want open source algorithmic feeds then I’m sure they can be done under some computational cost.

          I created Ecko, a fork of Mastodon, for the purpose of testing more adventurous ideas like this so created an issue based on this. Will be interesting to see if any code appears :)