If there was a feasible way to make the algorithm open, I think that would be good (of course FB would probably strongly oppose this). As you say, people wouldn’t directly design / early adopt new algorithms, but once early adopters found an alternative algorithm that they really liked, word of mouth would lead many more people to adopt it. So I think you could eventually get widespread change this way.
If there was a feasible way to make the algorithm open, I think that would be good (of course FB would probably strongly oppose this). As you say, people wouldn’t directly design / early adopt new algorithms, but once early adopters found an alternative algorithm that they really liked, word of mouth would lead many more people to adopt it. So I think you could eventually get widespread change this way.