I can't do algorithmed social media anymore

[kanzeon_2040]

I took a look at Medium and it felt awful. Worse than Facebook even. So algorithmed. I felt like the articles it showed me were overly machined to appeal to people like me, so that I would like them and follow the authors, BAM

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[gonzo21]

If Facebook actually had an option to switch off the algorithm, I might use it.

[kanzeon_2040]

I think it is highly likely I'd still be there. I don't understand why they don't allow it as an option. But with their continuing massive growth in users, they don't have to care what you and I think. Maybe when their user base crests they'll have to think about why some of us (still) don't like them.

[gonzo21]

I'm not even sure the majority of users even realise how little they're seeing of what their friends post. But they probably don't care.

[deloric]

I agree completely. I pick my authors and read every post in the order written; that is my preference.

I value ljs format and content much more highly than those other sites.

I wonder if dw has more active English speaking users.

[anais_pf]

I'm more afraid that LJ will go POOF one day, leaving me without access to years of my own journals, as well as no access to some of the people I read here. I like having an automatic backup over on DW.

As for FB, if you add every single one of your friends to a reading group, and then look only at that reading group, I think you get all the posts from all your friends in reverse chronological order. I myself have set up a reading list of just the 15 or so people I care about most, and if I'm in a hurry I just read that and don't read the algorithmed feed. It is damned annoying when I find out someone posted something important and I was not shown it, but on the other hand, I know I don't have time to read what 300+ people post every day.

[matrixmann]

The better it is with such algorithmed content if you just offer like one central page that gathers all of it, chooseable by subject (what you handpick you're interested in), and save all of this automated crap otherwise then.
So people can use it who want it and those who don't, they don't have to take it.
By the way, I always experience sich popup-out-of-nowhere crap at the sides of each page, it only causes technical trouble in browsers, computers, graphics and all that stuff. Especially when they're lightly corrupted, but the user doesn't want to reinstall his whole device.
That's actually what adblockers once were invented for - getting rid of the nasty popups that disturb your view on the contents you wanna see, getting rid of the troubles they produce by using Flash, preventing the trasnmit of malware and slowing down the overall performance of the device you use.

[vicar]

With you MOSTLY but as for eljay, it's not the russians, it's that I hear when they took the servers a bunch of "dissidents" were jailed immediately. It's that their government is being protested and using force against the protesters and not allowing elections. For that, yeah not into it and fine with DW.