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Alexandria could be enhanced to support a diversity of values by enabling the end user to add values they deem im-portant. This approach would enable the creation of a “ mar-ketplace of values ,” where users and communities propose values, and others can subscribe to and configure these val-ues for their feed ranking. This modular organization... See more

By giving users control over values, in contrast to other map-pings, such as topic or sentiment, Alexandria provides a way to shape their feed that is broad enough to capture diverse preferences and focused enough to remain practical and in-tuitive

This observation suggests that the my-opic, engagement-driven design of current feeds is at odds with users’ aspirational goals and sense of intentionality— tensions that Alexandria helps address by making feed val-ues visible and adjustable.

When the war ended, she didn’t go back to Leningrad. She kept going west, to a refugee camp in Frankfurt, and came to Canada on a DP boat. She was alone in her family in doing that. The rest of my family are still all in St. Petersburg, and they had a terrible life.

The reason that she left and they didn’t is because she was willing to give up... See more