those were the years people read blogs and found new people via webrings. they actually browsed the internet. most people found what they liked themselves, and thre was no approved list of people youre allowed to like and there was very little network effects. Your premise, that without algorithms people can't find things they like online, is false and proven so by recent history. all the algorithms do is direct your attention for you, which is usually not good for anyone.

How am I outing myself as anything by questioning you? By suggesting you’re advocating for centralized algorithms? Well let’s think through this… Algorithms curate content for unique individuals. This means they need lots of data on the user in order to do so. Rossman is advocating for no algorithms. You don’t like this. You go so far as to call this “sick”. Therefore, you clearly *want* algorithms. If the algorithm is decentralized, then that means it’s distributed. So everyone’s individual data needs to distributed so that an algorithm can come to a consensus on what to show each individual..? This is insane. And retarded. No one is going to want to process other people’s data. There’s no incentive. Not when the alternative is the algorithm running on the individual’s client. And that’s pretty much entirely within everyone’s control on nostr, YouTube, and any other tool that allows you to search, view tags, view followers, mute what you don’t like, etc. So given that this is solved, and you’re still bitching, I assumed you were advocating for a centralized algorithm - the alternative to a distributed one. So if you’re not, mea culpa - you’re just insane and retarded. My bad.

maybe you. ive never followed those people. i find a few people I like, let them boost people they like, keep my snr high. it seems like your reliance on algorithms is a lack of willingness to put effort into building social connections and lack of imagination.