Comment on Instagram boss says users will be ‘overwhelmed’ with brand content in algorithm-free world
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago“Algorithm” is a term from computer science that doesn’t inherently have anything to do with social media or content recommendations. Those things are examples of algorithms, but far from the only ones.
Tiresia@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
That is an example application of Algorithm’s work, but far from the only one. Algorithm doesn’t inherently have to do with information theory or programming languages.
Linguistic drift comes for us all. “Eventually everyone who hates this thing is going to be dead, and the ones that use it are going to be in control”.