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2026-05-12 22:09 UTC

Okay read it for myself and this is pretty ingenious. Goes from explaining the problem of outsized perception created from loud but small groups on social media platforms then designs an actual ass solution to surface real sentiment instead of clickbait engagement metrics https://thenoisyroom.com/

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@action_jay@mstdn.ca 2026-05-12 22:21

So there's a thought in this that if you could see how others felt about a thing and knew that everyone else had the same information, it would lower the temperature just by being there ambiently. That said, there's guaranteed to be a contingent who get increasingly more upset when they're faced with metadata on their posts that say most people disagree with them, especially in those early stages when it's a whiplash from the unearned certainty that of course they're right. A whole layer of conspiracy to explain the polling as fake, dead internet theory, must be "AI" made up polls etc etc, and I guess that's the irony laden end-game for the algo driven social media we'll need to eat.

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