Re:Bumble open sources Private Detector, AI tool to detect u...
by qubex on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @11:31AM
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It can’t have a target of “100% uptake” if it’s deliberately excluding some tiny but nonzero proportion of those who might otherwise subscribe.
That’s the bombastic reply anyway.
The more subtle and nuanced response is this is not a comparable situation because it’s not that developers are ignoring a small demographic, it’s that they’re deliberately working to make the environment actively hostile for that mini-demographic.
Re:Bumble open sources Private Detector, AI tool to detect u...
by shadowgovt on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @12:51PM
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> It can’t have a target of “100% uptake” if it’s deliberately excluding some tiny but nonzero proportion of those who might otherwise subscribe.
Targets are always aspirational. "100% uptake" just means "As many users as possible."
> they’re deliberately working to make the environment actively hostile for that mini-demographic.
Yes. This is because the larger demographic has made clear that they don't want to share the room with the other demographic and they will leave if forced to.
Re:Bumble open sources Private Detector, AI tool to detect u...
by yosito on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @01:05PM
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At one point, a promise of the internet was to optimize for the long tail of niche interests and viewpoints.
Re:Bumble open sources Private Detector, AI tool to detect u...
by shadowgovt on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @02:06PM
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I think the internet, as a whole, still does.
Individual pages and sites (even the mega-sized ones, like Facebook and Twitter) don't.
So what you're looking for if you want something like that is a developer that is not optimizing to get 100% uptake. That's tricky to find, because the people with money always want 100% uptake.