That's not filtering ourselves, that's letting ourselves be filtered. If an algorithm does the mental work of filtering us into bubbles, that makes it harder to escape.
The problem with recommendation algorithms isn't just the power, it's the fact that it deprives us of a shared reality. It's one thing if we filter ourselves into a bubble but it's another if the site itself does it.
I only discover music through human curators I trust.
Currently it's via the YouTube channel "worldhaspostrock", though the word "new" might not be appropriate because as of late they've just been posting decade-old albums.
One thing Ladybird has going for it is that they declared they're not implementing JIT (a feature I disable whenever I install Firefox). I think if that mindset extends to other elements, it might have the potential to get a functioning product to market faster than Servo.
Honestly splitting off Texas and California and all the states in between into their own country would be cool. Don't know the geopolitical implications but I don't really care.
The Democrats are unfathomably evil, but America will be a much worse place if they lose the midterms ... although I'm still fishing for ideas on what the Democrats would actually do. They've kind of tacitly approved everything that Trump is already doing and it's hard to imagine how far he'd need to go to push the Democrats to act.
The Democrats aren't going to act on economic issues unless it's pro-business, but on social issues I'd hope they have some kind of red line. They won't go after ICE or help trans people, but maybe they would slow Trump's rollback of abortion rights and same sex marriage.
That's not filtering ourselves, that's letting ourselves be filtered. If an algorithm does the mental work of filtering us into bubbles, that makes it harder to escape.