This is the best summary I could come up with:
Since Mr. Musk bought the platform, he has repeatedly declared that he wants to defeat the “woke mind virus” — which he has struggled to define but largely seems to mean Democratic and progressive policies.
The result, as Charlie Warzel said in The Atlantic, is that the platform is now a “far-right social network” that “advances the interests, prejudices and conspiracy theories of the right wing of American politics.”
“We believe that users should have a say in how their attention is directed, and developers should be free to experiment with new ways of presenting information,” Bluesky’s chief executive, Jay Graber, told me in an email message.
When the Stanford political science professor Francis Fukuyama led a working group that in 2020 proposed outside entities offer algorithmic choice, critics chimed in with many concerns.
Robert Faris and Joan Donovan, then of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center, wrote that they were worried that Fukuyama’s proposal could let platforms off the hook for their failures to remove harmful content.
Nathalie Maréchal, Ramesh Srinivasan and Dipayan Ghosh argued that his approach would do nothing to change some tech platforms’ underlying business model that incentivizes the creation of toxic and manipulative content.
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The first few paragraphs were a good read where the author makes a good point.
Sadly, it somehow turns into a BluSky promotion afterwards.
Good read, nonetheless.
Since the day twitter introduced their algorithmic timeline, they kept the option around to watch your feed chronologically. So the big “what if” of this articles headline is just “what if I just use twitter the way I could since it’s inception”.
Instead, rather than an algorithmic filter bubble, the author want a human-imposed filter bubble. So much better.
I was expecting something activitypub then I remembered nyt has a bluesky account
