I think following specific hashtags of a profile would be useful. Technically it's like following a profile but the timeline posts filtered by specific hashtags. Perhaps similar logic on Mastodon, to hiding boosts from profile or filtering posts by subscribed languages.
Could probably solve the issue where folks create multiple accounts for different interests or circles.
@cheeaun Agreed, too complicated. I like your idea of Follow Tags from the Profile, much easier. You could kinda implement this today with some API trickery but you'd have to store the user/tag combos somewhere. Kinda like you do with your hashtag combo timelines now, maybe?
@box464 still too hacky. This is in fact like the inversed version of keyword filtering but for specific accounts.
Even if this is implemented (on Mastodon or any mainstream platforms), it'll probably take time for people to shift their mindset over this. Another problem that someone mentioned is that the hashtag following won't work for boosts, if say, boosting music-related posts, which may not be hash-tagged, from a music-interest account.
not having creepy UI elements is one of the great benefits of this place, and sloping into the world of deceptive designs and things that forcefully step over the line of acceptable boundaries would definitely be moving backwards
"Ecologists have reoriented their field as a 'crisis discipline,' a field of study that’s not just about learning things but about saving them. We technologists need to do the same. Rewilding the internet connects and grows what people are doing across regulation, standards-setting and new ways of organizing and building infrastructure, to tell a shared story of where we want to go."
#SocialMedia#SocialNetworks#ContentModeration#Algorithms#RecommendationEngines#Messaging: "So you joined a social network without ranking algorithms—is everything good now? Jonathan Stray, a senior scientist at the UC Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI, has doubts. “There is now a bunch of research showing that chronological is not necessarily better,” he says, adding that simpler feeds can promote recency bias and enable spam.
Stray doesn’t think social harm is an inevitable outcome of complex algorithmic curation. But he agrees with Rogers that the tech industry’s practice of trying to maximize engagement doesn’t necessarily select for socially desirable results.
Stray suspects the solution to the problem of social media algorithms may in fact be … more algorithms. “The fundamental problem is you've got way too much information for anybody to consume, so you have to reduce it somehow,” he says."
"Perhaps the platform era caused us to lose track of what a Web site was for. The good ones are places you might turn to several times per day or per week for a select batch of content that pointedly is not everything."
@poppacalypse it was BIZARRE haha - it was all just super simple stuff people would make and upload, I'd put simple acoustic song demos up with my Handycam. It still kinda weirds me out, the way it is now 😂 I remember when they allowed longer videos people FREAKED out 😂😅😂
This is pretty amazing! People are taking my WordPress plugin that lets you warn site visitors if they don't have an ad-blocking browser plugin installed, and making versions of the project for non-WordPress sites.
Do you yearn for the “good old days” of the internet? The acronym-based chat clients, the Geocities sites filled with dancing hamsters, the MySpace pages filled with glitter GIFs and MIDI tracks?
@molly0xfff writes about a time when being online was simpler, but how with the tools at our disposal, getting back to that would be easier now than ever. Here’s more from her newsletter, Citation Needed.
Jedes Mal, wenn ich mich (aus beruflichen Gründen) in den Kommentarbereichen von Plattformen wie TikTok, Instagram und Co. umsehe, habe ich das Gefühl, in eine dunkle Welt zu blicken. Was dort an Hass, Dummheit und anderen negativen Äußerungen verbreitet wird, ist für mich kaum zu ertragen. Das geht weit über Meinungsäußerungen hinaus. Es ist einfach abscheulich. 🙈
@kuketzblog Es ist schon interessant, wenn man hier mitliest. Alle regen sich über den sozial-moralischen Zustand im Internet auf.
Und dann fallen die meisten genauso über anders Denkende her wie in sozialen Medien etc.. Die AfD nahen werden als rechtsradikal und dumm, die Grünen als eltäre Aufschneider abgekanzelt. Wenn jemand findet, dass seine grüne Einstellung am besten von den Grünen repräsentiert wird, und wenn der andere mein, dass die AfD seine Interessen am besten vertritt, dann ist
@kuketzblog
das ihr jeweiliges Recht auf ihre Meinung und man nennt es Demokratie.
Nicht verstehen kann ich aber, wenn z.B. ein AfDler seinen PKW beim Türken reparieren lässt oder ein Grüner 5x im Jahr auf seine Finca auf Malle fliegt oder mit einem dicken SUV durch die Gegend fährt.
Wenn eine Demokratie nicht mehr mit Rechts-, Links- oder Mitteradikalen klarkommt, dann ist es um diese Demokratie schlecht bestellt.