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Re:Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky by energy123 on Sunday September 01, 2024 @01:42AM (#41414610)
I want a social network like X/BlueSky but it uses a community notes style algorithm to decide what content to show me instead of raw engagement. Should get rid of the trolls as Paul Graham wants to happen.
Re:Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky by eterps on Sunday September 01, 2024 @03:40AM (#41415042)
Can you expand on your thoughts a bit? Do you envision that a very large amount of posts get reviewed in a community notes style?
Re:Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky by energy123 on Sunday September 01, 2024 @04:46AM (#41415301)
The algorithm would analyze the post's/user's likes. If a post/user is liked by people who often disagree, then boost the engagement of that post/user. If a post/user is liked by an echo chamber, then deboost it.
Re:Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky by tliltocatl on Sunday September 01, 2024 @05:06AM (#41415383)
What you describe is a flamewar maintenance algorithm. I mean, it COULD work if all people were sound and reasonable, but that's obviously not the case. And being a flamewar battleground is probably not the goal of most platform owners either. Also, for many topics that are not politics you don't need disagreement for a productive discussion.
Re:Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky by energy123 on Sunday September 01, 2024 @05:30AM (#41415484)
> I mean, it COULD work if all people were sound and reasonable, but that's obviously not the case.

But community notes works well. That's evidence that reasonableness emerges when you boost content that a diversity of people appreciate, regardless of whether people are sound and reasonable.

> What you describe is a flamewar maintenance algorithm.

Are you saying my idea will increase flamewars? I believe it should decrease flamewars, and that's why I want to see it implemented. Again I point to community notes. If a diversity of people like content, it's probably level-headed, and that's why community notes works so well.

Re:Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky by tliltocatl on Sunday September 01, 2024 @01:05PM (#41418470)
Ok, now I get it, I got it wrong. Still questionable, but for other reason: niche content (like, retrocomputing or pet spider care or just about anything that's less agreeable than funny kittens) would never come thru.

Echo chambers aren't intrinsically bad, only when it's about politics and social issues - i. e. stuff that will affect everyone in the end.

Re:Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky by nebula8804 on Sunday September 01, 2024 @11:59AM (#41417950)
What happens when Community Notes gets "gamed" like what supposedly happens sometimes on ...Community Notes?

One example can be that there is a mass attempt at pushing some viewpoint, it may not stick long term but it sticks for the duration of time the content is viewed by the most amount of people. Kind of like how upvote bots mess with Reddit.

Re:Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky by verdverm on Sunday September 01, 2024 @01:21PM (#41418579)
It will be built on the labeller tech aiui, so there can be many community notes providers and systems, with users deciding which they want to follow
Re:Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky by verdverm on Sunday September 01, 2024 @12:11PM (#41418039)
Anyone on the ATProto network can write such an algorithm and use it in the Bluesky app. They even have open source starter code on their github
Re:Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky by Maken on Sunday September 01, 2024 @12:30PM (#41418186)
Couldn't that be built over Mastodon?