Apr 9, 2022

An entire marketplace of algorithms

"Stephen Wolfram proposed to let people choose their own Algorithm: the social platforms could still host your data and provide the interface, but the way the data is aggregated, sorted, and displayed to you would be customized by pluggable algorithms.

If any entity were allowed to create and share an algorithm, they could create an entire marketplace of algorithms, allowing for competition and choice in how you consume your content.

What’s ironic is that I think Twitter’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, realized this, and split off part of Twitter’s brainpower to create a new social network called Blue Sky, which encompasses some of these ideas in a novel type of decentralized social network."

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This came from a wicked article by Tyler Freeman: Does Twitter’s Algorithm Hate Your Friends?
https://nightingaledvs.com/does-twitters-algorithm-hate-your-friends

Stephen Wolfram on letting people choose their own Algorithms
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/06/testifying-at-the-senate-about-a-i-selected-content-on-the-internet/

Jack Dorsey's decentralized Twitter spin-off called Blue Sky
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/technology/twitter-platform-rethink.html

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