Comment by mrbungie
15 hours ago
The algo learned "by itself", but humans set a objetive to optimize and then implemented it to do so as well as it they could.
So essentially both I guess?
15 hours ago
The algo learned "by itself", but humans set a objetive to optimize and then implemented it to do so as well as it they could.
So essentially both I guess?
It tends to get people annoyed if you don't. Facebook user distribution is like 12% Indian and 6% American. Twitter is(was) 34% English and 16% Japanese. Bluesky was at one point 43% Japanese. If your feed ISN'T filled with Hindi, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese and so on, with only one in five or less made in English sent from US, your feed is tampered with. But otherwise that social media would be genuinely less useful.
Mastodon only had the raw feed and that drove European network operators insane, so much so that they effectively GFW'd itself.