Mastodon is working on a pretty cool discovery system for ActivityPub https://www.fediscovery.org/
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2025
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Thank you for the input! Seems like a step in the right direction at least, but I would like something more peer-to-peer than federated, so that I myself can choose and direct the algorithm and not the server I happen to use as an entry point. I'm guessing, though, that this might not exist at this point.
Ooooh, related: https://www.piki.nyc/
Using Piki data, we find that while the like rate increases monotonically with artist popularity on Spotify, this does not hold true for superlike rates
This company's product seems to be music recommendations. We need something like this, but open source and federated.
Being able to direct my own reccomender system, in order for it to be alligned with my goals and not with my addictive tendencies
AGREE! There are options for controlling the data side of things, Lemmy, Mastodon, Jellyfin, torrents, but I've definitely noticed the recommendation side of things is basically non-existent. What I miss the most from Spotify or Netflix isn't the music or movies, it's the recommendations. There's a ton of content outside the megacorps, but we don't have a good way to find it.
It would be awesome if we had an algorithm that we could control. We could tune it to whatever we want, instead of letting these giant megacorps shove their shit in front of us.
The dream!
I've seen some papers on some experimental systems that can work in a peer-to-peer environment, that try to balance our privacy (since somehow we need to collaborate without exposing all the content we like or are interested in) and good recommendations. It is however quite an endeavor implementing such systems.
I've thought about this, an open recommendation/review system that could be based on your fediverse profile. Anyone could use their existing account to review things, but the reviews could be ranked based on how trustworthy you are on the fediverse, so bots/spam accounts wouldn't be taken seriously. Just haven't had any time to make it...
To add to this, most platforms, at least in Europe, but I guess its the same everywhere, are required by law to give you all the data they have on you. By building "adapters" for the major platforms, in order to process their formats, you wouldn't even need to start from 0 when "migrating" to the open source socials. If rendered automatic, even the average person could use it.
Btw I as well I am starved for time, otherwise I would love to try my hand at it, but the best I could do right now it's just maybe help. I am a Machine Learning dev, so I have some practical knowledge in that domain at least, although not on reccomender systems :/.