Axel Pilette
Axel founded Open Feed to make algorithmic visibility legible to researchers, journalists, and the public. His work focuses on translating opaque ranking and recommendation systems into shared, evidence-based knowledge by aggregating real user observations across platforms.
Our Story and Purpose
Open Feed began with a single mission: to make algorithmic visibility observable. Across digital platforms, ranking, recommendation, and moderation systems quietly determine what information appears, spreads, or disappears, yet their operation remains largely opaque to the people affected by them.
We built Open Feed to change that. By combining structured user observation with collective analysis, Open Feed documents how algorithms shape what people actually see in practice. Each contribution adds evidence to a shared record, helping reveal patterns in visibility, suppression, and amplification across platforms. Together, these observations turn private confusion into public understanding of how digital information systems function.