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Samuel10 Jan 2025
oh god lmao
SCOTUS knows about Bluesky.
While grilling US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar about algorithmic blackboxes, Justice Elena Kagan made the point that it’s not just TikTok where content is served up without explanation. “That’...
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Samuel10 Jan 2025
which shitposting account is secretly Justice Kagan
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Samuel10 Jan 2025
also, she’s wrong! we’re not like other girls
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Joshua J. Friedman10 Jan 2025
To answer Will's question, though, Discover isn't open-source, though, right? Just double-checking!
Will Oremus@willoremus.com· 10 Jan 2025
An astute reply points out Bluesky may offer some algos that aren't open-source. Would love to nail that down. Regardless I think the point stands that it doesn't rely on black box algos to power users' feeds by default in the way that TikTok, X, and Meta platforms do. bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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Samuel
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no, but segments of it are github.com/whyrusleepin... point is, you can have feeds that are not black boxes
GitHub - whyrusleeping/algoz: Bluesky custom algo hacking
Bluesky custom algo hacking. Contribute to whyrusleeping/algoz development by creating an account on GitHub.
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10 January 2025 at 5:25 pmView on Bluesky
Joshua J. Friedman10 Jan 2025
Thank you! Absolutely, your larger point stands
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