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Elon Musk: X's New Algorithm Will Be Made Open Source in Seven Days (www.reuters.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by noumenon@lemmy.world to c/opensource@programming.dev

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[–] protist@mander.xyz 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The odds of something actually happening after Elon says it will happen are roughly 10%

[–] Abrinoxus@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

They have to prio mars then opensource it!

[–] mech@feddit.org 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"This will be repeated every 4 weeks"

This sentence alone tells me it's not really going to be made open-source.
You don't need to open-source something repeatedly.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

They are only open sourcing the spaghetti that sticks to the wall.
Carefully curated and redacted/obscured/replaced where appropriate.
Probably removing hard coded rules like "always show musk tweets" and stuff like that

[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

To be fair, I didn't read the article...

But how would one open source an algorithm? Wouldn't it be the implementation of an algorithm be what is open sourced?

I hate the overuse and frequent misunderstanding of this word.

[–] Sherry@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Last week, my twitter feed started being filled with random political posts and engagement bait. It got so bad (about 70% is stuff I'm not interested in), that I've finally stopped using twitter.

I guess this could explain why the algorithm changed so suddenly.