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I really dread the idea of having social media algorithms decide who gets to talk to who. This "browse profiles, send message" actually how I met my first boyfriend on /soc/!



> I really dread the idea of having social media algorithms decide who gets to talk to who.

We're getting there, whether that's dating apps controlling your stack of faces one at a time, or even seemingly innocuous things like this site's opaque comment ranking system.

These things happen by inches.


"/soc/" Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time...




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