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Facebook is constantly experimenting on consumers — and even its creators don’t fully know how it works. (www.sauder.ubc.ca)
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  • Users of social media platforms like Facebook are part of constant marketing experiments
  • Because algorithms are driven by AI and machine learning, it’s impossible to know how social media companies are choosing what to show — and not show — different groups of people
  • Because there is no “random assignment”, marketers can’t fully tell if one ad might work better than another one.
  • In the process, groups of social media users can be excluded from important messages
  • Algorithms are so precise, they can target people down to an individual level
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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what I'm understanding that's markedly different from what we have here in terms of feeds

Well there's only a handful of "algorithms" (if you can call them that) in Lemmy, created by the devs, and all of them are very basic. You cannot go and create your own feed and you cannot share that feed with anyone else.

I also thought Mastodon was just a chronological feed as well.

Yes that is the problem. Maybe not for you, but it is for many "normies".

I don't get the hype for Bluesky when it's venture capital funded and eventually those VCs are going to want a return on investment.

I agree and was not trying to "hype" BSky. Just pointing out that fedi devs could take a page out of their book.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I still don't see a difference between choosing who to follow (Mastodon)/choosing what communities to follow (Lemmy)/blocking people-communities-intances you don't like and "creating your own feed." To me, all of those things are creating your own feed.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 16 hours ago

"Creating your own feed" implements algorithms that surfaces content for you, rather than you having to go searching for it. I've already explained how Lemmy is different and I don't know how to be clearer about that.