Pyepa! The last recommendation algorithm.
In order for you to know whether one algorithm is good or bad, you need to have another to compare it to. Most of the other things we measure—like screen time, sleep, and social interactions—are proxies, and most of them are wrong, in fact.
Sometimes the party is just boring and TikTok is what is saving you from an alcoholic relapse. Sometimes you cannot sleep because you're anxious about a job interview, and scrolling LinkedIn is a good way to bore yourself to sleep. Sometimes you don't want to over-deliver at work because it will intimidate your nepo boss. So, after doing the whole month's work in one hour, you have 7 hours left in the day—and the rest of the whole month—to sit at your desk pretending to work. Why not spend that time on YouTube indulging in Huberman's wellness evangelism?
The reason you find yourself on the screen has nothing to do with dopamine or some other nonsensical science-sounding words; you simply have nothing better to do with your time. If your grandparents had phones, they would also prefer to scroll sometimes rather than taking all those hikes that took years off their lives. Yes, taking a walk in the forest is good for your body, but it also increases your chances of getting bitten by a snake. That is why you're sitting on your couch instead of indulging the step-counting app on your phone. You could get hit by a boda, my guy. In Uganda, over 1,000 people get involved in serious boda accidents every single month. It is the Wild West off of that couch.
Anyway, back to the algorithm. Google has convinced itself that these white male nerds they hire are some kind of gods who are smart enough to create one single algorithm to serve us all. So when you scroll YouTube, TikTok, or LinkedIn, you're fed content that these white and Chinese male nerds are certain is what you need to be watching at that exact time. The reason you hate these platforms is not because TikTok or YouTube are bad per se, but because these extremely incomplete people are suffering from what I call the strongman syndrome. They believe that they were chosen by the gods of math to decide what should or should not show on the feeds of the billion people who use these platforms.
That is why I am going to prove their incompetence to them by releasing the final algorithm. One algorithm to rule them all. The One Ring of recommendation engines. The Elder Wand of the attention economy. The six Infinity Stones of your daily feed. Pyepa!
To do that, I need the right platform. A platform that allows me to sell the Pyepa algorithm as a service, but also one that allows you to compare Pyepa to TikTok or YouTube and inevitably agree that Pyepa is the best—without me first tracking how many times you poop in a day and all other kinds of unnecessary data that should stay private.
A big part of that is what the XkMato protocol will solve. Part of what the XkMato protocol intends to do is very similar to what the Nostr protocol is attempting, though Nostr's documentation is a mess and nobody has bothered to put decent breakdowns of it on YouTube. If they have, the PhDs who build the YouTube algorithm aren't smart enough to recommend the docs to me. Otherwise, I would prefer not to duplicate good work if it already exists.
My thinking is that if we build a protocol that has integrity and fairness enforced from the ground up, then we don't need to set any rules of competition or scare our competitors with grandiose claims of the pending takeover of artificial general intelligence. The consumers will get what they want, and the stronger magician will bend the world to his will without having to turn to witchcraft.