Elon Musk: X's New Algorithm Will Be Made Open Source in Seven Days

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/musks-x-open-source-new-algorithm-seven-days-2026-01-10/

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protist@mander.xyz · 21 pts · 243d (1 reply)

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

Abrinoxus@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 243d

They have to prio mars then opensource it!

mech@feddit.org · 10 pts · 242d (1 reply)

"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 pts · 241d

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 pts · 242d

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 pts · 242d

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.