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[โ€“] Fedizen@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I used google news phone widget years ago and clicked on a giant asteroid article, and for whatever reason my entire feed became asteroid/meteor articles. Its also just such a dumb way to populate feeds.

[โ€“] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yo dawg, I heard you like asteroids. So I populated your entire feed with articles about asteroids.