alt Hacker News>banning personalised feeds
This is just banning social media with one extra step, these apps are virtually useless without personalization and their economy relies on it. I'm all for banning these platforms, we're all hooked on them and we need a hard ban, I know it won't happen but it's the only way.
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You could make social media based on anonymous queries without personalization or likes. It wouldn't be useless, it would just be unrecognizable as social media.
Personally I would prioritize banning things like smoking, alcohol and meat.
But then again, it’s kinda a free world. You can’t just ban everything. I think an age ban is a good middle road.
> these apps are virtually useless without personalization
Social media was popular before the algorithmically tuned endless scroll.
Personalised is too vague of a term. IMO what destroyed social media was ending the chronological friends feed. When social media stopped being photos from your friends and family and started becoming endless content creator posts and ragebait.
Social media should not show any posts from people you haven’t friended.