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@jannem@fosstodon.org @rauschma@fosstodon.org @geertaarts@mastodon.green This area of detail is the discussion I've been looking for. Do you think there will be occasional "shake outs" of people and relationships? Case against it working OK: "Hate follow" (like "hate watching" TV shows, or just trash TV) is a thing, will always be a thing Case for it working OK: Up to now, many people underestimate the danger & impact of listening to people with a few very questionable views. It tarnishes some small but vital opinions, especially future ones that haven't happened yet, but influential ones. I'm implying things like systemic racism in technology, where (with no ill intentions) people can be very unaware of the ways that designs can change direction because of a lack of diversity during construction. When a big new field of work has 80%-90% of people unexposed to an important concern, when folks never thought about it for the first time, it only takes 1 or 2 bad influences to set the momentum of broad opinion in the wrong direction To circle back to your previous post: This is why it's super important to root out the bad influences, and let other people "vouch" positively and negatively for you. It's a similar need for subscription blocklists, but I don't like how those are high maintenance and take time to widen the net to catch the problems. Better, I say, to use a multi-dimensional scoring model to limit the bad influence of strangers, and increase the good influence of other strangers.