One easy point to make for decentralized social networks: being able to control your feed.
My Facebook timeline is dominated by far-right political content these days, and it’s not even any of my contacts boosting it. The algorithm just asks whether you want politics in your feed, with little nuance as to which politics are going in there.
Yes, I’ve hit the “I don’t want to see this” button thousands of times, but Facebook doesn’t seem to care.
Sean Tilley
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2026-08-19 21:22:05 UTC
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