This is certainly a growing trend which was first started amongst end-users themselves, and slowly we've seen a few news media outlets also following suite. So far, only a very few government agencies have actually followed. Coming to mind are also The Netherlands. What is attractive for many organisations and agencies on Mastodon, is that...
If algorithms are are not the default option and are not designed to generate profit for platforms and advertisers, then perhaps they could be a healthy way to discover new content
Also Need to allow some level of user customisability.
I’d run my own frontend aginst the API that ranks a large number of posts from the last 24 hours in terms of personal relevance
Such an algorithm has to run server-side, since it needs access to the full database of content.
It would be possible to allow users to upload their own algorithms (for example via Web Assembly), but I don’t know about any service that allows for that.
Wait, are we calling AI, “algorithms” again?
An algorithm suggesting things you might like doesn’t have to be AI. There are simple metrics to achieve that (e.g. things other people who liked this also liked)
Or are we calling every algorithm AI now?
Bubble sort is now a sentient AI
If (trending) callitai();
People keep calling algorithms AI, so probably