This is more about getting feedback/criticism for the idea that fedizens should run programs that monitor what they engage with similar to how Facebook,YouTube, or any corporate online service would simply so you can use it to run algorithms for find content you might like.
The key thing is that you only share the your data consentual at this point the data will stay locally stored.
I try to get a pulse anti algorithms crowd and it’s hard to figure out if they’re against algorithms generically or just specific platforms. People leave twitch because that also pushes people to be more commercial or capitalist.
The idea came up when I built peertube recommendation algorithm I got the part built for tracking watch time on peertube videos and I thought “track YouTube watch time and engagement to make peertube suggestions”.
Why is it when I miss a day of Daily Show it’s eviscerated from my feed entirely, but no matter how many Jordan Peterson thumbnails I hastily pass over, they still appear week in week out?
To date I’ve watched one JP video: Matt Dillahunty verbally tearing him a new asshole.
The right wing rabbit hole is real and, even if you’re explicitly against it, YouTube is like “if I can get him to watch just one …”, because they know they’ll have you watching videos like the guy from Clockwork Orange in no time. It’s disgusting.
Pro tip: never press “do not show me this” on right wing videos, just skip over them. That engagement causes the algorithm to mark you as emotionally triggered by politics and they’ll just shovel more of the same in your face. For them it’s just a roll of the dice, and the value of them flipping you is too high to avoid.