I’m sure they do, but I want them. It doesn’t have to be dumb content. It can make you discover and learn things while being addicting.

All for it, except maybe for it to run locally. An instance running it will be faster as it already has all posts and comments stored.

People say algorithms hook you and make you dependent: they show you the stuff you want, so you stay for longer. If I didn’t want to see stuff I want, I wouldn’t go to Lemmy…

No algorithm makes social networks so annoying. Lemmy is so much annoying because of this. I always see the same stuff, aka US news and some shitposts, the usual upvoted and trending stuff

There’s no discovery algorithm and no way to see posts from smaller subscribed communities easily. Each sorting method returns non-interesting posts.

Spam is only going to get worse anyway, just like bots spam on all forum, just by them using a specific forum engine

Yea, that’s the thing that scares me