Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

@thor

@darek67 tu już są społeczności. Ta planeta nie jest nowa, jest zamieszkana i traktowanie jej jako czegoś do skolonizowania może być średnio odebrane przez obecnych mieszkańców, szczególnie że mają oni już swoją kulturę dzięki której jest tu mniej zawiści, podłości i społecznej patologii.

@arnelson a good rule of thumb is "screw instances defederating as per guilty by association". If an instance defederates yours not because there's something wrong with it but because it federates with another instance they think there's something wrong with, it's a bad instance and fuck them.

@nixCraft mastodon.social is the instance you join to get a grasp of the fediverse and find an instance that fits you better, it's way too overcrowded for a permanent stay.

@thor which is in itself a stupid idea – if you earned the money for that mansion, you deserve it. You already provided enough productivity to society to fund it. There's no reason to additionally turn it into a bloody tax to society for it to just exist, maintaining it is enough of a constant cost that generates tax revenue.

Also, forcing people to jump through hoops just to maintain their capital, not even increase it, is how you get increasingly worse attempts at working around the system or abandoning it altogether.

@CodingItWrong that's kinda the point of fedi, isn't it? A part of it can work by your standard, another part by someone else's.

In the discussion on algorithmic content delivery there seems to be a different side of it missed. Algorithms don't have to be used to smartly give you more content, they can also smartly choose what to display if you want less of it.

If you follow people who post a lot but only a part of their posts interests you as much as others', a pure chronological timeline is very sub-optimal. An algorithm can make you a timeline that prioritises the kinds of posts you like and de-prioritises ones you don't, so you get maximum value per watched posts, decreasing as the important new posts run out and the less important ones get presented. This can reduce FOMO of "I'm sitting here for a long time but haven't caught up on all the posts of my favourite people". This is something I remember Twitter doing pretty well, except of course with also inserting random crap it thinks you'd like in-between.

Furthermore, it doesn't have to be a learning algorithm that requires tracking your data, it can be a "dumb" one that simply has priorities set based on some qualifiers (author, keywords, the like) and creates a mix of mostly higher priority posts with some lower priority ones. It can all be configurable.

The fediverse with its open nature allowing one to choose their servers, clients and if they appear algorithms has a big potential for better UX that we're refusing by the allergic reaction to any mention of algorithms.

#fedi #meta

@cinnamontaipei możliwość dostosowania ilości i źródeł informacji jest z pewnością jedną z większych zalet

@thor that's especially weird since it seems that Kubuntu is an official flavour and Xubuntu isn't.