First things first: Meta is a terrible company that has spent years making terrible decisions and being terrible at explaining the challenges of social media trust & safety, all while prioritiz…
Mike Masnick is on the Bluesky board of directors. Could this position be affecting his judgment on this specifically? because usually I expect Techdirt and Mike himself to be much more reasonable.
Yes, of course. Bluesky is also social media and so the precedent set by these cases will apply to it. Besides, knowledge of a subject does tend to affect your judgment.
Mike Masnick is on the Bluesky board of directors. Could this position be affecting his judgment on this specifically? because usually I expect Techdirt and Mike himself to be much more reasonable.
Yes, of course. Bluesky is also social media and so the precedent set by these cases will apply to it. Besides, knowledge of a subject does tend to affect your judgment.
So is Lemmy…
Yes, but everyone on Lemmy knows that the law only applies to the bad guys.
I was wondering the other day if Lemmy or Bluesky have any algorithms that are actively trying to keep users engaged?
Cool thing about Lemmy is you can just read the code and find out
IIRC somewhere they also explained it in plain English what the sorting methods do. My layman brain thinks that’s a kind of algorithm.
Kindly correct this layman if I’m misunderstanding :)