@jerry @quintessence #thanksfor ur work and investment, it's generally appreciated, hopefully #donations make it even
also it is #appreciated that there is no "#algorithm" that boosts or hides #thank #thanks
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Take back control. Stop being sheep to the algorithm!
usher.devKill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think
@TheZeldaZone@mastodon.socialYou WILL leave behind all #algorithm driven social media.
Either by your own will, or because the algorithm bans you for something it made up.
There is no choice. Start leaving #algoshit platforms immediately, give yourself the head start and enjoy the lack of headaches.
https://www.theverge.com/news/626139/reddit-luigi-mangione-automod-tool
The Verge · A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content
#Fediverse: You are your own #algorithm.
Will Consumer Data Collection Lead to Algorithm-Adjusted 'Surveillance Pricing'? - Slashdot
"Imagine walking into a grocery store and seeing a price for milk that's higher than what the next shopper pays because an #algorithm calculated that you're willing to spend more..."
#surveillance #surveillancepricing #privacy #ripoff
yro.slashdot.orgWill Consumer Data Collection Lead to Algorithm-Adjusted 'Surveillance Pricing'? - SlashdotAn anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post's "Tech Brief":
Last fall, reports that Kroger was considering bringing facial recognition technology into its stores sparked outcry from lawmakers and customers. They worried personalized data could be used to charge different prices...
The second crisis is "institutional convergence."
When we let an #algorithm be police, prosecutor, judge, jury, jailer, and executioner, we undermine the separation of powers that allows democracy to flourish.
New #Algorithm watercolors for the enemies of #AI https://artologica.etsy.com #art #watercolor
@on_code@mastodon.gamedev.placeMy relationship to what we call "the Algorithm" is such that it has influence in every part of my life. I started realizing it a couple of months ago and since then the way I see and use technology has changed. I spend too much time being fed by a machine who needs me to stay captive. I don't enjoy games or music as I used to... As I'd like to...
Am I the only one being tired or letting big corpo decide what I should see or enjoy?
@chris@mstdn.gamesDear @Mastodon can we have a setting for: "automatically hide/collapse all #hashtags except for 3" please?
I really appreciated the recent influx of new photographers (many coming from Instagram I presume) but the excessive hashtag use is getting out of hand. No hard feelings, it's hard to break old habits - but there is NO #algorithm here that needs gaming. Very few main hashtags will suffice. Choose 3 that fit best. Write hashtags for people instead, i.e. #silentsunday #fediverse #photography
I often see posts with more than 30 hashtags, sometimes taking up more space than the actual picture. That's unnecessary keyword stuffing and it's not helping accessibility and screenreaders either. Please use a meaningful ALT-text description instead 
(The image below is auto-generated, not an actual post - but it could have been one 
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After some feedback, I updated the thing I made yesterday.
Again, feel free to boost / download / copy / share ...
I made this thing. Feel free to boost / download / copy / share ...
"People think #algorithms can be taught to do things, but in reality #algorithm is abusing the power and subjecting and conditioning its users.
Hashtags used to be super useful back in the days on Twittter. The time can be pinpointed to the time before any recommendation algorithms.
This is why I'm so elated about #theFediverse and Mastodon. We bring back the free and natural #socialweb."
From: @rolle
https://mementomori.social/@rolle/113894405248631033
Memento moriRoni Laukkarinen (@rolle@mementomori.social)The problem with the modern commercial social media is that the features that originally made social media powerful are by now completely diluted.
On Meta platforms and X:
- No hashtags are used any more. They used to be used very loosely: Events, hobbies, FollowFridays, TGIF (Thank God it's Friday) etc...
- People no longer care to follow lots of people
- People do not recommend other people or content to follow
- We do not have genuine interactions, it's one way or controversial
This is because of the recommendation algorithms. They do the heavy lifting so the original features are becoming redundant. People think algorithms can be taught to do things, but in reality algorithm is abusing the power and subjecting and conditioning its users.
Hashtags used to be super useful back in the days on Twittter. The time can be pinpointed to the time before any recommendation algorithms.
This is why I'm so elated about the Fediverse and Mastodon. We bring back the free and natural social web.
#SocialMedia #SocialWeb #Fediverse #Algorithm #Algorithms
The problem with the modern commercial social media is that the features that originally made social media powerful are by now completely diluted.
On Meta platforms and X:
- No hashtags are used any more. They used to be used very loosely: Events, hobbies, FollowFridays, TGIF (Thank God it's Friday) etc...
- People no longer care to follow lots of people
- People do not recommend other people or content to follow
- We do not have genuine interactions, it's one way or controversial
This is because of the recommendation algorithms. They do the heavy lifting so the original features are becoming redundant. People think algorithms can be taught to do things, but in reality algorithm is abusing the power and subjecting and conditioning its users.
Hashtags used to be super useful back in the days on Twittter. The time can be pinpointed to the time before any recommendation algorithms.
This is why I'm so elated about the Fediverse and Mastodon. We bring back the free and natural social web.
Threads is offically getting ads
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24351141/meta-threads-ads-test
#technology #tech #meta #threads #socialmedia #fediverse #mastodon
Who needs an #algorithm when you have #hashtags and #chronologicalorder
The Verge · Threads is offically getting ads
Love Mastodon but it would be pretty cool if someone made a platform built off ActivityPub *with* an algorithm. I understand many people don't want an algorithm; that's why they're here, but interoperability between instances is the whole point! Allow someone to choose to have an algorithm, and keep talking to their friends on Mastodon. (Threads doesn't count)
Like Bluesky with ActivityPub
European Union orders X to hand over #algorithm documents - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/european-union-orders-x-to-hand-over-algorithm-documents/ " EC has also requested access to information on how X moderates and amplifies content." #twitter #musk
Ars Technica · European Union orders X to hand over algorithm documents
We finally have a platform that can compete with 
. This solves the #algorithm problem and everyone, especially Europeans, can jump on a platform that doesn't manipulate them. #Meta has already shown itself to be suspicious, to the point of censoring posts that refer to @pixelfed. With good reasons. In just a few days, #Pixelfed has already reached over 330,000 accounts.
But there's more from the #fediverse: an alternative to #TikTok is coming: it's called #loops.
The Guardian · Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms
Before the year was out, I finished the book Filterworld by Kyle Chayka, which is about the flattening of culture at the hands of (the people who develop) algorithms.
And now that I've read the book, I can't unsee this process -- the dull sameness with which much of what we (are expected to) consume falls into -- and that wasn't always the case. Of course, some of that is due to (Western) cultural colonialism, but Chayka would probably agree that algorithms are a type of cultural colonialism, too.
Chayka isn't the only one who's noticed. A couple of weeks ago, I read an article that lamented Baryshnikov as one of the last adherents to "high art."
Chayka cites an essay by Scorsese, talking about his own influences [I have no opinion on Scorsese here, just being illustrative]: "The paranoia that I hear in Scorsese’s essay is that the art of the twenty-first century no longer holds up to such scrutiny. Instead, it’s cheap and ephemeral, wafting through your life without leaving any discernible mark. (The passion of his writing shows just how much Scorsese was marked by Fellini, an impact that he was still processing six decades later.) That may be because to fit into digital feeds, in order to attract those pernicious likes and further promote itself as much as possible, culture has to be content first and art second—if at all. "
@TheZeldaZone@mastodon.social"oh boy I sure do hope I have to craft every individual character of every post I make in perpetuity in a way that does not offend a constantly changing computer algorithm designed exclusively for the profit of rich people who are not me" - ravings of the utterly deranged
This is REAL algoshit posted by REAL algosite users
Math on a Checkerboard - The word “algorithm” can sometimes seem like a word designed to scare people away ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/03/math-on-a-checkerboard/ #multiplication #classichacks #checkerboard #chessboard #squareroot #algorithm #division #binary #math
Hackaday · Math On A CheckerboardThe word “algorithm” can sometimes seem like a word designed to scare people away from math classes, much like the words “calculus”, “Fourier transform”, or R…