I'm always surprised that other social media platforms need algorithms to get you addicted to them.

@distinctdipole yeah. I'm hooked by interesting people, bad jokes, trains & sharks.
It's a heady mix that keeps me coming back ️

@distinctdipole the null algorithm is still an algorithm?

@distinctdipole

Indeed, I don't want someone else, be they human or artificial to tell me what I'm interested in.

I have friends to give me recommendations about things they actually know I'm interested in (and even then they can get it wrong)

But of course an algorithm isn't even intelligent (though they probably have been replacing them with AI these days...)

Anyway that's not the point; the point is to drive you to buy something, believe something or do something the owner, or their customer buying access, wants you to.

@DrHyde Only in concept