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Realistically I think that is why banning him even as a brief show of force will be very effective. He understands pain, it’s the universal language.

he folded to brazilian courts last year. but now, with trump in power, he may have more means to pressure back.

to not piss off computer scientists and mathematicians with their dear word "algorithm", you may want to narrow it down with the expression recommendation algorithms.

Even trivial sorting algorithms are still called algorithms.

An important thing to consider: Mastodon doesn't have an "algorithm" for presenting posts in your subscription feed.

That doesn't mean it "does not have an algorithm" entirely, though. There's a couple of non-trivial ones being used to recommend friends and calculate the trending posts and tags that show up on the front page, and they do actually consider likes/shares as part of scoring.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/54e20301462b381f27c50ed305abeedde1ace878/app/models/trends/statuses.rb#L98

Yeah an algorithm is a series of mathematic instructions so from my armchair I'd say sort by date is not an algorithm. But to complicate things further there seems to be a sticking point with some that social media uses heuristics and not algorithms. I don't really understand the difference nor do I really care as this is all too much about semantics - /u/grue's final point is still spot on IMO. Why mess with letting a billionaire toy with the minds of your citizens? Let the USA have twitter and all that chaos to themselves.

I mean AfD is also pro-russia AND have neo-nazi's in its ranks.

They are at 20% in polls just before the german election.

I don't think many people have as many issues as they should have with russia or they just don't care.

Why not? Asking genuinely.

As you said, they are services. They are not required.

edit: modifying software of cars in general is highly regulated. so banning tesla would create issues for people having those cars, i would love to “homebrew” them but hey, thats fucking illegal

How is it even related to services?

This is what I was worried about with tiktok being banned.

I don't have a tiktok. I don't like the concept. I won't be joining loops. I just don't like the core concept.

Now add in that it's a chinese spying tool, and I'm all the way out.

Buuuuuuut it does pose a tricky situation. Ban it, and set a precident that banning social networks is ok. Maybe they ban the fediverse next. We all know this country is run by billionaires and big business. We all know that the onlu reason tiktok is banned is because it competes with X, and Elon is basically president now.

So what stops them from banning the fediverse? Every single instance is now illegal. And since the fediverse is so unknown, it's not like there would be much pushback politically.

So. Ban the chinese spy tool, or defend net nuetrality?