{"id":200767,"date":"2024-12-04T11:25:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T17:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/for-news-algorithmic-social-networks-are-a-failed-experiment"},"modified":"2024-12-04T11:25:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T17:25:56","slug":"for-news-algorithmic-social-networks-are-a-failed-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/for-news-algorithmic-social-networks-are-a-failed-experiment","title":{"rendered":"For news, algorithmic social networks are a failed experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-news-algorithmic-social-networks-are-a-failed-experiment2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meta might yet teach its AI to more consistently show the right posts at the right time. Still, there\u2019s a bigger lesson it could learn from Bluesky, though it might be an uncomfortable one for a tech giant to confront. It\u2019s that introducing algorithms into a social feed may cause more problems than it solves\u2014at least if timeliness matters, as it does with any service that aspires to scoop up disaffected Twitter users.<\/p>\n<p>For a modern social network, Bluesky stays out of your way to a shocking degree. (So does <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90834897\/no-mastodon-hasnt-already-peaked\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mastodon<\/a>; I\u2019m a fan, but it seems to be more of an acquired taste.) Bluesky\u2019s primary view is \u201cFollowing\u201d\u2014the most recent posts from the people you choose to follow, just as in the golden age of Twitter. (Present-day Twitter and Threads have equivalent views, but not as their defaults.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/social-media\/what-are-bluesky-starter-packs-how-to-find-and-create-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Starter Packs<\/a>, which might be Bluesky\u2019s defining feature, let anyone curate a shareable list of users. You can follow everyone in one with a single click, or pick and choose, but either way, you decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta might yet teach its AI to more consistently show the right posts at the right time. Still, there\u2019s a bigger lesson it could learn from Bluesky, though it might be an uncomfortable one for a tech giant to confront. It\u2019s that introducing algorithms into a social feed may cause more problems than it solves\u2014at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}