100% yes. But I think people also drastically overestimate the chain of trust within email. Never send anything over email that you don’t want going all over the place.

if they all cooperate

Gonna stop you right there

Lemmy instances have similar stigmas

It’s one of two things

1. Your app doesn’t hide things that are marked as read. This is typically a setting you can choose.

2. The same content is being posted to multiple communities or multiple instances (if you are watching global feed). This is not something that can be fixed I think.

Oh boy… I’m sorry. I’m arguing on another thread against someone who is saying algorithms are inherently bad and we shouldn’t use them. I thought that was you. I will try and remember to check context next time.

Yes, you’re making a lot of sense. I think that’s why I never got Pinterest. I used it for link storage, not idea generation.

So it’s like image storage? Or bookmark storage? What happens on the website you’ve pinned changes?

Similar? No no no. That’s a shit algorithm.

Let me give you an example. I search for leftist content. I somehow get served a British guy who does floor refinishing. It’s fantastic. I also get people doing skits about working in a restaurant.

A good algorithm follows patterns in people’s preferences, not patterns in the content.

How does one use Pinterest? I never got it

It’s not exponentially growing. At best, the growth rate has exponentially increased. These are VERY different things.

It was exponentially growing, the platform would come screeching to a halt and crash.