Post #1385007
2022-12-19 18:25 UTC
@michaelchampion @cdub @danbri
Part 3, societal impact.
Search is an editorial ranking of content — in fact the editorial decisions are the whole point, it's supposed to be opinionated, not random. Having an excessively dominant source of editorial decision-making is unhealthy for a society. A dynamic like the browser/search feedback loop that mechanically leads to search concentration is a problem for society. Browser UX that favours generalist search over verticals makes this even worse.
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@robin@mastodon.social 2022-12-19 18:29
@michaelchampion @cdub @danbri Note that I think that there are ways in which we could address that issue while retaining a dominant indexer (see also next part). It would require some form of opening up control over ranking to users. At any rate, worth solving for.