Post #2564667

2024-12-20 02:31 UTC

@whophd@ioc.exchange @rauschma@fosstodon.org @geertaarts@mastodon.green Cheers, they will, yeah. Gotta say, by the way, I think the filter slider is a stroke of genius. I mean, the scoring idea from https://mas.to/@miblo/113581191464258423 is in the context of a system where the messages, I imagine, are laid out in 2D, by their proximity to each other and us. But in the 1D of Mastodon, there's no space for proximity, a message can only be or not be shown. So how on Earth do you pick what to show, given a score of 60%? Our friend the filter slider.

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@whophd@ioc.exchange 2024-12-24 00:25

@miblo@mas.to @rauschma@fosstodon.org @geertaarts@mastodon.green Yeah it’s basically got one end with a sticker saying “Inbox Zero people, this is you” But we’re all different people — I see the entire merit of people’s argument for chronological timeline, but I don’t want to go back to my Twitter addiction — that’s a time sink for 30s energy I no longer have But equally — and this statement may age poorly — YouTube has a really nice algorithm (and nice content makers). It may be my dedication to the “Fewer Like This” button and “Never Recommend This Channel” button, and I’m also very frugal with the Like button. It’s public, unlike a Favourites list. But YouTube’s present success with opaque algorithms might be more to do with the higher bar to clear, to publish a video. It’s one thing to post “garbage” in comments, whether human or bot, and be abusive and not address arguments; doing that in a video doesn’t happen as easily — a video has to be ABOUT something. Even TikTok. And video is, more or less, slow enough to “create”, to break the positive feedback loop of tit-for-tat that devalues all textual posts & reposts & quote-posts & replies — possibly, that’s the key to Instagram being a better format than Facebook. The tsunami of video-form slop has already started but the flood defences only need to scale linearly; video has to scale volumetrically.

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