I think there's something special about websites where everyone gets the same thing. Like how Wordle was so popular, or Hacker News -- I often mention to my wife some article from here, and she already read it so we have an interesting discussion. Compare that to TikTok "have you seen that one? no... well they're talking about this roman battle, but the soldiers are all birds..."
That was a small part of the thread, but I mention it because of what he said about the power of human curation -- that the curator picked out these great treasuries from the sea of shirtless dudes. Because if you have the same frontpage for everyone, it's feasible to have an expert just pick that instead of needing some weird flaky NN that's expensive to develop, train, and run, and produces bland (or disturbing) recommendations anyways.
(Even algorithmically-driven sites like HN benefit from that, like dang manually emailing people to resubmit interesting stories.)
That was a small part of the thread, but I mention it because of what he said about the power of human curation -- that the curator picked out these great treasuries from the sea of shirtless dudes. Because if you have the same frontpage for everyone, it's feasible to have an expert just pick that instead of needing some weird flaky NN that's expensive to develop, train, and run, and produces bland (or disturbing) recommendations anyways.
(Even algorithmically-driven sites like HN benefit from that, like dang manually emailing people to resubmit interesting stories.)