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lentshappening t1_j9ks473 wrote

Reply to comment by mcphilclan in Google case at Supreme Court risks upending the internet as we know it by dustofoblivion123

They could function more like a publisher, with editorial review of the content that is shared on a feed. Or they could revert to something like MySpace, where everything is published and it’s on the user to find accounts they like and visit them.

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Simonic t1_j9lny0y wrote

And most would just shut down. Sites like YouTube would become unusable without an algorithm -- and curation/moderating costs could skyrocket to the point of no longer being profitable. Millions of minutes of new videos are added to YouTube daily. I assume most of these social media sites are the same.

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