
The Latest Online Culture War Is Humans vs. Algorithms
Business, Spoken
Curating Diets and Social Media Algorithms
The vision is to allow people to curate their diets based on real human recommendations, not algorithmic suggestions. Unspread users cannot upload original content; they share links to external content. The platform excludes brands and bots, does not feature ads, and measures success through meaningful engagement indicators rather than time spent on site. While some argue for simple chronological feeds, others suggest that algorithmic curation can mitigate social harm, proposing more sophisticated algorithms as a solution to overwhelming information online.
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