On the first episode of my new podcast, Hucklemelon, I ask three tech policy experts if we could use YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, and all the other social media platforms with their algorithms turned off, and a new marketplace of alternative curators turned on: hucklemelon.org

...Related to social media, Three Pillars piece links to this blog post exploring just the kind of @nytimes.com middleware service you suggest -- with both algorithmic and editor curation options. ucm.teleshuttle.com/2024/10/maki...

I am working on a podcast series on ‘middleware’ and would love to speak with anyone involved with this project or interested in it. Thank you for the incredible work that went into this paper! Beyond the paper’s scope, but in its spirit, I am interested in exploring: