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Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by jghn on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:00AM (#43268353)
> It’s because the small dozens of us that care about the freedom that the small internet afforded vs algorithmic content discovery is now the minority and no big platform cares about us.

This. I see people whine all the time about being subjugated to The Algorithm on these sites. On many sites there are easy workarounds to avoid The Algorithm altogether. But when this is pointed out they come up with some reason why they hate interacting with things that way.

In other words most people very much do want An Algorithm. They just might not want The Algorithm.

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Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by dartos on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @02:09PM (#43270844)
“The Alogrithm” is just another idea being propagated by an algorithm anyway.
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Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by DrillShopper on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @02:27PM (#43271094)
Every time someone complains about ThE aLgOrItHm as a YouTube viewer(*) I remind them that the Subscriptions feed exists and continues to work.

(*) YouTube creators, though, have to have a firm knowledge of it because at this point for many of them less than 10% of their views come through subscriptions.

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Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by deathlight on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @03:43PM (#43272077)
You don't even need an account, you can use an RSS reader on channel pages. I think that's how newpipe populates its feed.
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Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by DrillShopper on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @08:27PM (#43275132)
Yes, but I'm talking about normies here. The kind that go "What the heck is a tee tee are ess? I just want to watch some cat videos!"

Newer channels need to have their channel page crawled once to get the actual URL for the RSS feed but older channels do not.

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Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by jghn on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @02:41PM (#43271274)
Yep.

Unless I'm using search functionality, if I don't have a mechanism to view only accounts I already predesignated *and* the ability to sort chronologically: I almost never use that site. As much as people whine about algorithmic content, people don't seem to agree with my methodologies either.

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