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Ask HN: It's almost 2021, what social media platforms do you still use?
In the last few years, I have consumed news/content mostly via Social media, and I keep noticing the redundancy and narrowed recommendations of (FB, Twitter) algorithmic timelines. Since I didn't want to use other apps to consume news, I initially tried to manually personalize my timelines. After several attempts, FB remains a black box, without easy ways to adjust/influence the "algorithmic" timeline. I started using Lists on Twitter and manually explore new content. I have tried to hack a tool to diversify the content, and have better success with reddit/twitter APIs, FB has strict API. To my surprise, I had better results using RSS feeds + script to cluster content -> slack summaries periodically, (Old) RSS feeds helped to passively monitor good content.
It's almost 2021, what social media platforms do you still use?. Is it just me, or do you notice such problems with algorithmic timelines.
As a user, I just want to have a better algorithmic timelines, with no harmful personalization that cage us in our filter bubble.
As a (ML) developer, I want to have a better API/system that can enable me to customize or deploy my recommendation/news trending models; why do we still need to use one "recommendation model for every user on social platform" that is unknown for end user, I believe user/community should have flexibility to deploy their own recsys models.