Though I don't know any details about Last.fm's algorithm. Most likely it is based on neural nets, which are opaque to the user. I think this is totally fine for music recommendations. In that domain the are few adversaries and the cost of a bad recommendation is just a skipped song.
For information content I feel the stakes are higher and there are more bad actors who would love to grab our attention. That's why I think it is important to have a transparent algorithm.
And yes, LinkLonk does find your "neighbors" - people that like the same content as you did. What is more, LinkLonk connects you to those people, that liked that content before you did. And they are likely to be more informed than people who upvote the same content after you upvoted it.
Since we still have few users I would suggest to start using LinkLonk as a tool for bookmarking interesting content and following RSS feeds. Hopefully this would make it useful enough before the number of users reaches a critical mass for the network effects to kick in.
Though I don't know any details about Last.fm's algorithm. Most likely it is based on neural nets, which are opaque to the user. I think this is totally fine for music recommendations. In that domain the are few adversaries and the cost of a bad recommendation is just a skipped song.
For information content I feel the stakes are higher and there are more bad actors who would love to grab our attention. That's why I think it is important to have a transparent algorithm.
And yes, LinkLonk does find your "neighbors" - people that like the same content as you did. What is more, LinkLonk connects you to those people, that liked that content before you did. And they are likely to be more informed than people who upvote the same content after you upvoted it.
Since we still have few users I would suggest to start using LinkLonk as a tool for bookmarking interesting content and following RSS feeds. Hopefully this would make it useful enough before the number of users reaches a critical mass for the network effects to kick in.