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Year of the ~~Linux Desktop~~ Fediverse!

Side note, DAE find calling them "normies" kinda icky? It's like straight outta 4chan

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 32 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

"No algorithm" would load nothing at all. Everything is an "algorithm," including listing all posts in chronological order.

Wanting "no algorithm" is like wanting food with "no chemicals" in it and not realizing that carbs, fats, proteins, etc. are "chemicals."

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

But when someone says they want no chemicals in their food, you know exactly what they mean. This is just being a bit pedantic, I think.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Exactly. Every time I see someone post that "akshully, chronological order is also an algorithm" (which I see a lot), it makes me think of the old "what you are calling Linux is akshully GNU/Linux" thing. Please people, let that go.

Because you know perfectly well that when we talk about "algorithms" we're specifically referring to corporate social media manipulative algorithms designed to increase engagement, NOT a simple sort of posts by date or number of upvotes. mkay?

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Did someone call for me???

[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Noble gases are chemicals too, damn it!

The only thing that isn't "chemicals" is literally just vacuum.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 6 hours ago

Even a vacuum has random particles coming in and out of existence, it's not even empty space