Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Same goes for the difference between getting a feed of things boosted and written by ...
Same goes for the difference between getting a feed of things boosted and written by *people* you've chosen to follow, and getting a feed of things chosen by an algorithm. This is for reasons far more profound than the mere fact that algorithms use poor signals to choose those posts (e.g. "do a lot of people seem to be arguing about this post?").
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