Platforms like Reddit and Tumblr need to optimize for growth. We need to have growth, but it is does not be optimized for it.
Yeah, things will work like a little elitist club, but all newcomers need to do is find someone who is willing to vouch for them.
Just add “account age” to the list of metrics when evaluating their trust rank. Any account that is less than a week old has a default score of zero.
Why does have it to be one or the other?
Why not use all these different metrics to build a recommendation system?
Well, I am on record saying that we should get rid of one-dimensional voting systems so I see your point.
But if anything, there is nothing stopping us from using both metrics (and potentially more) to build our feed.
That would be only true if people only marked that they trust people that conform with their worldview.
The indieweb already has an answer for this: Web of Trust. Part of everyone social graph should include a list of accounts that they trust and that they do not trust. With this you can easily create some form of ranking system where bots get silenced or ignored.
You were so eager to come up with a jab at other people that you seem to have ignored the second paragraph. It is pretty clear that you could benefit from a bit of introspection to look what you could offer to the world, instead of just trying to put everyone down.
Wishing you well.
Most people want social media to read and talk about the mundane things that are interesting to them (like sports, or their hobbies, or some new cool bar they want to go on, or some interesting places to travel) instead of using it to doomscroll and display outrage.
If all you want from social media is a place that constantly keeps you anxious and reminds you of how little power you have to change the things you are so pointless worrying about… then sure, Lemmy is more than enough as it is.
No flair. What you need is:
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Edit: to those downvoting: If you think what I am saying is wrong, how about giving a better answer?
Here is a Mastodon Post and here is how it ended up in Lemmy (The NSFW tag was because I mistakenly tried to add the title as a content warning)
This would be amazing to be integrated with Voyager. People could migrate to Reddit via Fediverser and clone only their subreddits to the device.
It doesn’t have to be this way. There are instances focused only on basketball, soccer, American Football, Tennis…
It would be great to have people like you on https://fediverser.network. Follow the subreddits that you miss from there and use to promote the Lemmy alternatives.
And I hope to see you soon on [email protected]. :)
Somewhat related: would you be interested in joining https://fediverser.network? The project is meant to help people migrate from Reddit to Lemmy automatically. People need to authenticate once with their Reddit credentials, and the system finds the best instance for them and looks at their list of subscribed subreddits to automatically find and follow the most relevant Fediverse communities.
The project is now at the point where more people can join and help spread out the word to Redditors, so the idea now is to get more people there to sign up (to help fill the crowdsource map of community recommendations) and to get more Reddit moderators who might be interested in helping their communities to move out of there.
Fair enough. I think I’d rather be more mindful of what “mode” I am browsing around. I stick with only the subscribed communities, and whenever I am in the mood for something new, I take some time to browse around the instances to see what’s out there. Browsing by all and then blocking all the crappy stuff seems to me like a constant effort with very little potential reward.
wouldn’t it be easier to stop browsing by all and only see the things you want to see?
Wait, how many communities do you need to block every day for this to be an issue?
It looks like your cloudflared is trying to reach the Lemmy UI directly? What is the URL your tunnel is configured to reach?
Ok, which part of “multiple metrics” is not clear here?
Every risk analysis will have multiple factors. The idea is not to always have an absolute perfect ranking system, but to build a classifier that is accurate enough to filter most of the crap.
Email spam filters are not perfect, but no one inbox is drowning in useless crap like we used to have 20 years ago. Social media bots are presenting the same type of challenge, why can’t we solve it in the same way?