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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by yurodivuie on Friday March 31, 2023 @07:00PM (#35394930)
It's healthy to have a normal amount of cynicism. They released it for a reason. "The goal of our open source endeavor is to provide full transparency to you, our users, about how our systems work."

Why be transparent (or try to appear transparent)? To convince people to trust your platform (or to recruit - which seems to be another goal of the post). Why would Twitter want or need to do this now? Well, there is a bit of context. This disclosure doesn't exist in a vacuum.

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by mirkules on Friday March 31, 2023 @07:55PM (#35395409)
I love this take. Doomed if you do, doomed if you don't.
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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by drstewart on Friday March 31, 2023 @08:58PM (#35395873)
>It's healthy to have a normal amount of cynicism.

I agree, which is why I wonder what your motivation is to take down Twitter. You're posting about this for a reason. If I were a rival social media company, I'd probably have paid agitators to sow doubt. Especially if I didn't want to open source my own algorithm.

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by blitzar on Saturday April 01, 2023 @04:47AM (#35398527)
I agree, which is why I wonder what your motivation is to defend Twitter. You're posting about this for a reason. If I were a social media company, I'd probably have paid agitators to defend them.
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