I’ve seen a lot of shit takes lately about curating your own algorithm, mainly that it should be either a collection of your own work on your own website (babes I’ve seen all this before, I can’t look at it a thousand more times and pretend to be entertained) or that you should only look at content creators/topics that you already know you like, which sucks all the whimsy out of it. I DO want to go on a strange tangent about koi farming and learn new things, actually.
So far as the takes I’ve seen totally miss the point that the only good thing about algorithms was discovering new things.
I’m not claiming to have a solution to this – ideally I’d like a place to go where I can see updates (for the love of fuck, decent ones) from people I like and articles about things I am or may be interested in. I don’t want clickbait. I don’t want shitty personality tests or rage bait or nazi bs, I don’t want to be watched by the ever present surveillance.
I just want to connect and discover.
I largely stay off social media (ad) platforms now cause they have nothing of worth to offer me, although I dip my toes in now and then. Feel a bit caught between “if I want people to see my stuff I have to be present” and “this isn’t working and the environment fucking sucks”.
Tough one, innit?
