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Daily.dev's unethical software design
If you’ve watched even one Fireship video in the past 3 months, you probably know what Daily.dev is. If you don’t, it’s pretty simple. Daily.dev functions as a sort of “hub for crossposting” – a really nice idea, actually. No one is forced to use a certain platform, and writers have the potential to market to a much larger audience. I have a few complaints about the site though. Most of them are personal though, so I won’t spend that much time on them. Here’s a short list: AI generated summaries, “meh” customization options, and lots of organizations posting slop content that I don’t really care for (this content is also super hard to get out of your feed for some reason). Those are just my opinions though. However, there is one “complaint” I have that I think everyone should be worried about. If you haven’t visited app.daily.dev in recent weeks, you might notice something a little bit different on your return. Below the title of each article, there’s occasionally a little yellow shield. This yellow shield signifies that something on Daily.dev’s end (likely some sort of machine learning model – I’m not completely sure to be frank, as this isn’t my area of expertise) has determined that the title in question is clickbait. A bad look for Daily.dev That in itself isn’t a great look for Daily.dev (but wait, we haven’t even gotten to the worst part!). This is absolutely something that could negatively affect an author, and thus, it’s a great way for bias to seep in. What if English is an author’s second language, and because of that, a lot of their titles sound a bit clunky to people who have spoken English their entire life? Their “clickbait” detection system might incorrectly flag that post, thus punishing an author simply because their English isn’t as good as others. Some possible issues What if an author has a specific naming or writing style that differs from whatever this detection system prefers? If this detection system is some sort of machine learning model, what if, over time, it “learns” (again, not sure if that’s the correct term or thought process here) to flag listicles more than it does any other kind of article. I’m not the biggest fan of listicles, but there’s nothing against it in Daily.dev’s rules, thus any listicle should have the same chance of success as any other type of post. Again, this is why I think that this is something everyone should be worried about. And by the way, yes, this has already incorrectly flagged quite a few posts. Here’s an example of one: And here’s the post itself. I think we can all agree that this clickbait detection system is completely inaccurate. The worst part So what’s the worst part? Well, if you pay
If you’ve watched even one Fireship video in the past 3 months, you probably know what Daily.dev is. If you don’t, it’s pretty simple. Daily.dev functions as a sort of “hub for crossposting” – a really nice idea, actually. No one is forced to use a certain platform, and writers have the potential to market to a much larger audience.
I have a few complaints about the site though. Most of them are personal though, so I won’t spend that much time on them. Here’s a short list: AI generated summaries, “meh” customization options, and lots of organizations posting slop content that I don’t really care for (this content is also super hard to get out of your feed for some reason). Those are just my opinions though.
However, there is one “complaint” I have that I think everyone should be worried about.
If you haven’t visited app.daily.dev in recent weeks, you might notice something a little bit different on your return. Below the title of each article, there’s occasionally a little yellow shield.
This yellow shield signifies that something on Daily.dev’s end (likely some sort of machine learning model – I’m not completely sure to be frank, as this isn’t my area of expertise) has determined that the title in question is clickbait.
A bad look for Daily.dev
That in itself isn’t a great look for Daily.dev (but wait, we haven’t even gotten to the worst part!). This is absolutely something that could negatively affect an author, and thus, it’s a great way for bias to seep in. What if English is an author’s second language, and because of that, a lot of their titles sound a bit clunky to people who have spoken English their entire life? Their “clickbait” detection system might incorrectly flag that post, thus punishing an author simply because their English isn’t as good as others.
Some possible issues
What if an author has a specific naming or writing style that differs from whatever this detection system prefers? If this detection system is some sort of machine learning model, what if, over time, it “learns” (again, not sure if that’s the correct term or thought process here) to flag listicles more than it does any other kind of article. I’m not the biggest fan of listicles, but there’s nothing against it in Daily.dev’s rules, thus any listicle should have the same chance of success as any other type of post. Again, this is why I think that this is something everyone should be worried about.
And by the way, yes, this has already incorrectly flagged quite a few posts. Here’s an example of one:
And here’s the post itself. I think we can all agree that this clickbait detection system is completely inaccurate.
The worst part
So what’s the worst part? Well, if you pay
