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Ireland's new law proposes to all but do away with social media companies' algorithms. As most global tech companies are HQ'd there, it will be the law they have to follow in Europe. (www.newstalk.com)

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[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Good, it's a useful step, although if they only have to get sheeple to opt-in once, that probably wouldn't be hard.
By the way, algorithms not all bad - Lemmy has some, with good use of logarithms, you can improve on github.

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Without algorithms the Internet would suck.

Something as simple as the most active posts in 24 hours is an algorithm.