921–930 of 1001 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
[flagged]
I would love to know where the OG users went before the reddit invasion completes. If anyone knows then please tell me!
Besides, if you have to ask, it’s not for you.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Couple problems: 1. Actively supplying negative feedback is sometimes hidden behind secondary menus, making it much higher friction compared to just...scrolling past. So most users don't spend the effort. Even with a dislike button, it's unclear what the system is learning. It can't know that I don't like this particular video because it's a conspiracy theory, and to stop showing me those. These platforms often don't…
Twitter could recreate a similar system: 1) auto-tag tweets with labels, rather than users needing to submit to subreddits 2) auto-sub most people some default set of labels 3) let them un-sub if they want. They just don't want to.
Great! But nothing is going to change until people realize that the problem is the feedback loop . It's not the recommendation engine itself, it's the fact that there's no way "out" of the feed that the engine produces. It recommends you stuff, you have little choice but to engage with it, and then it trains on that information . This is the problem with most of social media today. It is a very well known problem in…
So , all we need to do is to open source humans?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Twitter contributed a lot to Map-Reduce, ETL and Scala communities: IMO they punched above thier weight. Sadly, I think their best open-source contribution days are behind them with all the hardcore engineering they now have to do with fewer engineers. Edit: I forgot about Bootstrap! That projects saved the world from millions of ugly web apps and dashboards built by clueless backend engineers.
On the other hand, I kinda loathe Bootstrap. I started web dev a bit after it peaked so maybe that's why but I'm so sick of the look and find it hard to think people ever thought it was good. Another trend Twitter popularized that I can't wait to die: absurdly large border-radiuses
Earlier quoted context omitted.
not with blue marks
I'm not in the US
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/13/facebook-...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am not sure about that. Twitter has open sourced a lot of stuff in the past. There were certainly people there who would run the site as a nonprofit public service if they had the choice.
Twitter had 18 years to publish their algorithm under the previous management and they didn’t.
From https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92... ( "author_is_elon", candidate => candidate .getOrElse(AuthorIdFeature, None).contains(candidate.getOrElse(DDGStatsElonFeature, 0L))), ( "author_is_power_user", candidate => candidate .getOrElse(AuthorIdFeature, None) .exists(candidate.getOrElse(DDGStatsVitsFeature, Set.empty[Long]).contains)), ( "author_is_democrat", candidate => candidate .getOrEls…
Update: Elon was asked about these in a Twitter Space, he says it's not appropriate and will be removed from the codebase. Additionally, from another Twitter engineer, the Democrat/Republican flags are apparently 10 years old and not important and do not have high feature importance.
Considering how Twitter is now getting a servance isn’t that bad of an idea TBH
Great! But nothing is going to change until people realize that the problem is the feedback loop . It's not the recommendation engine itself, it's the fact that there's no way "out" of the feed that the engine produces. It recommends you stuff, you have little choice but to engage with it, and then it trains on that information . This is the problem with most of social media today. It is a very well known problem in…