@Crissy There are obviously 2 distinct dimensions involved:

IF there is to be a hierarchy of .. say trustworthy-news, or anything ..
( even the basic "these are unbiased on mediabiasfactcheck, those are biased, these are accurate, those aren't )

THEN that is *institution, or operation* centric..

IF there is to be people voting on what is important,

THEN .. the concentrator of that, needs to be a server or a network-of-servers..

IF ideological-control/political-control/for-profit-control is to control the fediverse's discussion,

THEN they need to make-certain that there's no *in-use* alternative to their machiavellianism..

( obviously, I want to break machiavellianism from ruling our world: they can keep their parasitic "heaven" to themselves )

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Each dimension needs to be dealt-with separately,
*before* the different dimensions are brought-together into a functioning system-of-systems..

Mitigation-of-intentional-deformity ( ideological or money-motivated, or any other ), though, *has to go into the ranking-systems in the servers, doesn't it?

interesting: "feeds" are themselves distorting view, & those feeds need to be corrected to be filtering-out the stuff that *needs* filtering-out, for each user,
& *not* filtering-out the stuff that they need to see, or want to see..

& how can discovery be improved?

hmm...

@Crissy has to also be about personal experience, investigating, work and getting out on the front line, doesn't it?

Otherwise it's just commentary on the professional/mainstream media.