Re:twitter/the-algorithm
by actuator on Monday April 25, 2022 @06:05PM
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Yeah, this makes no sense. There is no golden algorithm that Facebook, Tiktok or Twitter has figured out.
All these feed rankings are complex combinations of features, models coupled with weights and filters. On top of this abuse detection layers are added.
Unless Musk is planning to open source user data to show what all the "scores" and "features" for all the entities are and how they were reached to, this will make no sense. The whole argument against some people being downranked has been, why me? Just writing a whitepaper to tell the general methodology, is not going to make that go away.
On top of that, exposing every vector through which you measure and stop abuse, will just allow for more sophisticated abuse.
All these feed rankings are complex combinations of features, models coupled with weights and filters. On top of this abuse detection layers are added.
Unless Musk is planning to open source user data to show what all the "scores" and "features" for all the entities are and how they were reached to, this will make no sense. The whole argument against some people being downranked has been, why me? Just writing a whitepaper to tell the general methodology, is not going to make that go away.
On top of that, exposing every vector through which you measure and stop abuse, will just allow for more sophisticated abuse.