Ex: With all the Kanye meltdown stuff going on, which is "general interest", Twitter has been amplifying the tiny % of antisemitic voices in the black community and mixing them into my feed. That is quite distracting for a site I use for various tech industries' news during breaks. (Common use case of Twitter, and big $ for them.) In contrast, a site like LI will only rarely allow, and more importantly, freely & widely amplify that sort of garbage - I can list the exceptions I've seen.
Jack Dorsey believes in injecting both sides to a conv even when one is fringe intolerant nonsense on something far from the topics a user primarily cares about.
See his NPR interview on boosting both sides over in-network moderation in these cases.. which some not so mysterious reason correlates with engagement-boosting algorithms. (Double speak for: trolls drive clicks.) Listening to racist diatribes and being algorithmically nudged to 'engage' with it is ridiculous
I'm hopeful there is a "HN" like mode which is actually heavily moderated where only constructive, non-inflammatory discussion is allowed. I wouldn't use this all the time, but having one button to tune out all of the noise would be cool.
Jack Dorsey believes in injecting both sides to a conv even when one is fringe intolerant nonsense on something far from the topics a user primarily cares about. See his NPR interview on boosting both sides over in-network moderation in these cases.. which some not so mysterious reason correlates with engagement-boosting algorithms. (Double speak for: trolls drive clicks.) Listening to racist diatribes and being algorithmically nudged to 'engage' with it is ridiculous