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And I think that's a lack of memory. Where were those "algorithms" in flame wars on news groups, mailing lists, fora on the Internet & Web 1.0?
Even when the web became highly commercialized, there remained non-commercial sites of largely unmoderated, anonymized discussion & imageboards driven by the "hivemind": where were "the algorithms" there?
It's unrestrained people uninhibited from putting their unfiltered thoughts online to stir discussion: no "algorithms" required. "The algorithms" steer even the least sophisticated users to the content that captures their attention. And moderation maintains that attention by subduing those elements that would result in users ragequitting the Internet & missing those ads they scroll past.
Maybe we need to bring back ragequitting?