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The Labor Party is expected to release legislation requiring social media companies to allow users to turn off algorithms controlling the content in their feeds (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 1 points 45 minutes ago (1 children)

Dunno, I guess - new first, only your contacts - is KIND of an algorithm, but I don't know that anyone would call that an algorithm.

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 1 points 37 minutes ago

Any systematic method of decision is an algorithm, so it is an algorithm.

Usually you also want to add contacts-of-contacts posts if they are relevant “enough”, so you need to define what that means. New first often gives you a lot of crap and hides more interesting content (have you tried it on Reddit?), so that’s not the preferred algorithm even in the best case scenario.

And here we are, deep in algorithm making.