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Yeah, tildes is definitely a cool space.
Any chance I could grab an invite code from one of you guys? Interested in this, looks like a cool place.
Sent you one via your contact form.
Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?
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Re: Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?
#92https://relevant.community/relevant/top has a good mix of technology and culture/society content similar to HN. The voting is based on a pagerank reputation system. Users earn reputation from getting thier comments upvoted and, in turn, increase the rank of the posts they upvote. This makes rankings sybil-resistant making manipulation harder and moderation easier. So far its been a great way to keep communities focus…
Interesting. Could you explain the prediction market/betting system in more detail? Can users wager Coins, upvotes, or repuptation that they get back multiplied by some factor that depends on the success of the post they bet on, or do I misunderstand? Also, TIL of the concept of a Sybil attack, AKA sock-puppeting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack > an attack wherein a reputation system is subverted by forgi…
Users can wager Relevant Coins (not reputation) on the quality of posts. This is done via a 'bonding curve market maker' (https://blog.relevant.community/how-to-make-bonding-curves-f...). The market maker mints 'shares' in exchange for staking Relevant Coins. The more shares are outstanding the more expensive they are, thereby rewarding early participants.
Not that the actual ranking of the post is determined via the pagerank algorithm which is independent of the coins and betting.
If the post has a higher ranking than average it gets a portion of the newly minted tokens — kind of like block rewards. These rewards get distributed to all the users that staked on the post proportional to the amount of shares they own. Everyone also gets their original tokens back. So in reality this it's prediction market 'light'. All users pay a 'tax' on their token balance via the inflation rate and but get a chance to win a portion of the pot by participating in curation.
The betting mechanism is similar to and inspired by Steemit. Except they don't use reputation ranking to resolve the market. Steemit posts are ranked by how many tokens were staked on them, so a whale can basically force the market and get all the rewards — self-fulfilling prophecy. In our case its is more akin to an actual prediction market where the prediction is separate from outcome. At scale the prediction market can actually be a useful way to surface recommendations.
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I always liked the look of lobste.rs but never knew anyone active there who could invite me (I've spent the last few years working at tiny startups and haven't spent nearly enough time networking with others outside my immediate circle).
what's your email?
Hi ,
It would be great if you could provide me an invite as well. I do not know anybody there hence unable to join the community. My email id is methusala8 at gmail dot com
Re: Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?
#96Metafilter https://metafilter.com still has interesting comments and occasionally unique content, besides the links which bubble up everywhere. It's pretty heavily politically left, which, along with heavy moderation has driven away a lot users over the years, but sometimes still has some nuggets you don't see on other aggregators. It is much more of a community than most of the other sites, with lots of rules and sub-sites, but I've only read the comments.
Twitter has been surprisingly useful since I started using last year. If you only follow accounts in a specific area of interest it really allows you to discover new things. The hard part is dealing with power poster/users since they can quickly dominate your feed, but they also can bring in new areas of interest. It's too bad they don't have better tagging curation tools.
Serializer https://serializer.io/ is a meta-aggregator which grabs stuff from HN, Ars, some Reddit forms and others, not sure if this counts or not.
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tildes.net is similar in that it’s good but it does have politics
Very interested in getting in on taht when it starts opening up. To me there's a crisis of credibility in modern media, especially social media - contributors are so ephemerial and pseudonymous, it's too easy for sockpuppets, bots, paid posters, etc. to masquerade as journalists and average citizens. A system that focuses on exclusivity and controlling who has the algorithmic equivalent of credibility on their platfo…
yeah it’s been working pretty well and it’s been almost a year. the only thing it needs really is more users.
Re: Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?
#98Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/ It's a slower-moving site with lots of CompSci and programmer-focused stuff. People also regularly share what projects they work on, what's going on in their life, or maybe what they're reading. Still has a small community feel despite over 10,000 views a day. Lobsters and Hacker News are my must reads each day. They're both great. :)
I just saw Lobsters can send new stories and comments as plain text emails. With an advanced MUA (e.g. mutt) you could probably implement your own scoring algorithm.
(I'd appreciate an invitation, too: @secure.mailbox.org)
Re: Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?
#99Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/ It's a slower-moving site with lots of CompSci and programmer-focused stuff. People also regularly share what projects they work on, what's going on in their life, or maybe what they're reading. Still has a small community feel despite over 10,000 views a day. Lobsters and Hacker News are my must reads each day. They're both great. :)
I just saw Lobsters can send new stories and comments as plain text emails. With an advanced MUA (e.g. mutt) you could probably implement your own scoring algorithm. (I'd appreciate an invitation, too: @secure.mailbox.org)
Update: got an invitation. Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always liked the look of lobste.rs but never knew anyone active there who could invite me (I've spent the last few years working at tiny startups and haven't spent nearly enough time networking with others outside my immediate circle).
what's your email?
Hey! Do you mind sending me one too, if you have any left? :)
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