matcha_addict @ matcha_addict @lemy.lol

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Feed Algorithms aren't inherently wrong imo. The problem with typical feed algorithms is two things:

• no user choice or control: the user cannot opt out of the algorithm, and cannot customize the algorithm
• lack of transparency: there's little to no visibility how exactly the algorithm operates.

This certainly helps, but I think is not enough. If I go to the "All" feed, I get everything indiscriminately. I wish there was some in between mechanism. I don't claim to have the answer.

This doesn't address searchability also.

Searchability is bad.

Growing a new community is hard. I wish people used lemmyverse more often.

Having a fully customizable feed algorithm would be a killer feature.

Maybe would be easy to fork it

By free software you mean the FSF or OSI definition. Many people won't care, and some of us actively are against corporate leech on free software, which this license helps with.

I'm happy to read reviews on goodreads and bookwyrm, but write reviews only on bookwyrm.

I had no idea about this project. Is it like a better search engine for libgen etc?

Does the fediverse need to maintain its "soul"? As long as it preserves user choice and corporate resistance, the rest isn't required and can be maintained in those specific instances.

Venture capital backed project. That's enough for me to avoid when non-corporate options exist. Tired of for-profit corporations ruin open source.

There's tangible reasons to avoid it, but the VC thing is enough for me.

Israel attacks syria every week btw

Uploading like... Torrents?

So now north Korea, an economically suffocated country, can get some cheap oil as relief.

Sorry I'm not following your point

sanctions work

Did not realize the goal of sanctions was to strengthen ties between Russia and north Korea, and provide NK with economic relief.

Don't many providers already have similar rules?

Thanks for the link. But is this really unseen in FOSS? My understanding is some FOSS projects do this so that it is easy to make major decisions without having to bring every person that has ever contributed to the project, kinda like how ZFS is stuck with license issues because they can't bring all contributors together to approve a license change.

Any examples of this? PRs that are good overall but not for corporate sponsor?

I suppose you're right. But I thought the reason we are using conceptual models of computation is to not concern ourselves with the implementation details of the physical world and real computers. It's why we have an infinite tape, for example.

Representing a "sum a list of numbers" problem in terms of binary logic gates would be the opposite of that. We're complicating the problem. Turing machines as I've seen them are not that low level. Would binary addition be the sensible way to sum a list of numbers in a turing machine?

Your answer is still convincing though... I suppose we can represent functions as series of verifiers. But my only remaining point of confusion is... Is that really the better way?

How would you represent something like "sum a list of numbers" as components of verifiers?

Hate everyone except Israel?

Almost every Muslim's eyes is at the horrors being committed in Israel, yet these "Muslims" never bothered to be concerned with them?