Taylor Lorenz

You know, there's that famous story where Target knew a girl was pregnant before her own father, right?

Like,

If we take that away, the content gets a lot less engaging because they can't target kids as aggressively.

No, there are definitely problems to solve, big problems.

And there's a lot that we could do to, I think, address all of the very legitimate concerns that parents have when they talk about this stuff.

Because it's really hard to raise kids today.

I'm totally empathetic about that.

We don't want top-down government control of algorithms.

Like, that's very silly.

The Trump administration has said what they would do with that, and it's not good.

But we do want to give users more control.

So ironically, we were talking earlier when I first joined about Blue Sky or Vance and all that.

There's this other model for the web that actually is gaining popularity, which is the Fediverse model.

It's this model where essentially there's interoperability between platforms and there's a lot more user choice.

With Blue Sky or some of these other services, you can actually choose.

You have control over the algorithm.

You can tweak the algorithm.

You can put a lot more user control and parents can set a lot more controls.

things that these big tech platforms don't allow.

There's no advertising as well on a lot of those alternatives.