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Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

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Post by lolinder »

astrange wrote: post #91
nirav72 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> that in time it might develop into zealous communities of samethink yeah, this is reddit in a nutshell. Anyone that pointed out that Harris is going to lose the election because of x reasons was ridiculed. Among other things.

Don't read too much into something happening. That was about the narrowest possible loss and it doesn't validate most reasons it could've happened.

He carried all 7 swing states, 5 of them with what looks like it will be a 2% margin or more (and those five would be enough for a victory even without the other two). We lost both houses of Congress. It was a closer election than, say, 2008, but this was a resounding defeat. Saying otherwise is just sticking your head in the sand.

The DNC needs to do some serious introspection.

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

#102

Post by evbogue »

paxys wrote: post #19
voat wrote: post #13

I'm interested to see how Bluesky ends up handling bad actors in the long-term. Will they have the resources to keep up? Or will it become polluted like the other large platforms. Also, if a part of their business model will be based off selling algorithmic feeds, won't that mean more spam is actually good for their bottom line because they'll sell more algorithmic feeds that counter the spam?

The AT Protocol already accounts for this. There will eventually be community-built content labelers and classifers that you can subscribe to to rank and moderate your own feed however you want.

If AT was distributed using a signed hash message protocol combined with a simple replication strategy (perhaps only replicating a friend and the friends friends) to spread those posts out between their PDSes this burden of moderation would fall less upon the shoulders of their main PDS.

As always I refer the conversion to the ssb API documentation[1] for an example of how AT could have been made.

[1] https://scuttlebot.io/

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

#103

Post by hobobaggins »

idlewords wrote: post #95

Bluesky would really benefit from a notional ($1/year) signup fee. That small bit of friction makes a vast difference in knocking down all kinds of spam, at the price of being considered a bit uncool (for having a revenue stream).

not sure why you're being downvoted. It's what Metafilter and Whatsapp did (but delayed until the following year, IIRC). Maybe Metafilter isn't the best example :)

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

#104

Post by [deleted] »

yapyap wrote: post #2

“ Excessive moderation is a barrier to open and robust debate, ultimately undermining the diversity of perspectives that make meaningful discourse possible. Supressing dissenting opinions will lead to an echo chamber effect. Would you like to join me an upcoming campaign to restore Europe? Deus vult!” ah social media, some people are truly as dumb as rocks

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Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

#106

Post by thousand_nights »

dyauspitr wrote: post #71
4ntiq wrote: post #65

something tells me 4chan will survive the birth and death of many social media platforms. lessons to be learned but everyone keeps repeating the same mistakes

Yeah but what’s the point, most people don’t want to spend a lot of time there.

that's an intended feature working as expected, an influx of more people would ruin it

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

#107

Post by dyauspitr »

newsclues wrote: post #78
dyauspitr wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah but what’s the point, most people don’t want to spend a lot of time there.

The small group that does has had a major influence on culture at large.

It does but that’s not what a large scale scalable corp is trying to achieve. You want as many participants as possible enjoying themselves for as long as possible.

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

#108

Post by PontifexMinimus »

luckylion wrote: post #38
paxys wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The AT Protocol already accounts for this. There will eventually be community-built content labelers and classifers that you can subscribe to to rank and moderate your own feed however you want.

I understand the moderators working for the big social networks have a terrible job and often see the worst the internet has to offer. Who is going to do that job as a volunteer? Or is that expected to be solved by technology? Hard to imagine them achieving what Google, Facebook etc could not reliably.

> Who is going to do that job as a volunteer

There could be a system whereby if you see something bad in your feed you can report it.

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

#109

Post by PontifexMinimus »

agoodusername63 wrote: post #86
citizenkeen wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This underestimates the effect of Bluesky’s culture of “block and move on”. There are curated block lists you can subscribe to. Individual communities do a pretty good job of shutting down toxicity they don’t want to engage with.

It shares the same problem that Twitter had years ago back when it supported API blocklists. Everybody you're blocking is at the whims of the blocklist owner, and it didn't take long for those people to go insane and use their lists as a tool for their own personal unrelated crusades. Bluesky is already starting to experience this from a few I saw going around

Then unsubscribe from that blocklist.

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

#110

Post by astrange »

lolinder wrote: post #101
astrange wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't read too much into something happening. That was about the narrowest possible loss and it doesn't validate most reasons it could've happened.

He carried all 7 swing states, 5 of them with what looks like it will be a 2% margin or more (and those five would be enough for a victory even without the other two). We lost both houses of Congress. It was a closer election than, say, 2008, but this was a resounding defeat. Saying otherwise is just sticking your head in the sand. The DNC needs to do some serious introspection.

The DNC barely exists and doesn't do anything. (Same for the RNC.)

In a presidential year it's basically all geography and coattails from the presidential campaign. This one followed the post-inflation trend from every other country, if you need a single explanation for it.

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