snek

snek, 10 months ago

They need to do a better job surfacing ANY KIND OF user-generated content. Seems like this is failing due to Reddit being a fairly old site, thus being bumped up the search results. Lemmy, kbin, etc communities are on newly created domains, giving them minus points on Google's retarded result ranking system. This system is now effectively hiding the internet from us by holding out good content that doesn't satisfy it's ranking algorithm. This system crumbles in the face of new changes because they are treating the internet like a town square rather than an organic community-driven living machine.

snek, 10 months ago

What functions will it have?

snek, 10 months ago

Thanks for the offer, I might add you later. Some tips to get started would be really appreciated.

I'm a programmer as well, so if you want any help let me know.

snek, 10 months ago

Cool, I'm at work atm but I promise to take a look as soon as possible. My initial goal is to try to have a PoC bot running before the 1st of July.

snek, 10 months ago

Hi, thanks for the help. This is exactly the purpose I posted in the original thread. I'll take a look but will likely build my own. If your repo is good, I'll fork it.

snek, 10 months ago

Sure.

snek, 10 months ago

Wonderful

snek, 10 months ago

I am planning to create a bot that would allow people to tag posts or content they want to get fact checked. The idea is this:

(1) you tag the soon-to-be fact-checker bot under a comment or main thread, something like @fact_check_this

(2) the bot cross-posts on the community page on lemmy.world

(3) for the future, given sufficient answers to the post (maybe we can control that with flairs or something), the bot can also nudge back the person who requested the fact checking

(4) will share the code for the bot so that others can replicate this on their own instances, now thinking of forking this one: https://github.com/SleeplessOne1917/lemmy-bot

snek, 10 months ago

(1) No Karma system at all

(2) Karma spread over several numbers rather that one; think of Github's user page for example, stats for everything in general on one's profile to reflect general activity

(3) Community award badges

snek, 10 months ago

I agree that it would have to have lots of rules and limits to discourage bots/farming.

Having it help fund the servers is an excellent idea, fully community-driven.

snek, 10 months ago

While I still would like to see an alternative to Karma that's less problematic, I agree with the idea that gamification will not solve issues. If anything, it creates a "KPI/score" people want to desperately meet for the wrong reason.

snek, 10 months ago

I believe reddit was simply filled with all kinds of people. There is an array of subs to choose from with different interests and activity levels. I find it silly that people on reddit consider themselves "non-normal" and "geeky". I don't think you're that special.

snek, 10 months ago

I've been on Reddit for the past 6 years, to answer the question about the point of reference.

In my opinion, Reddit is suffering from the same problem as the internet in general: the more quantity you have, the less quality overall. The internet kept getting larger and we couldn't index every website anymore so only an ever-diminishing portion that makes it to the surface; in Reddit, this is equivalent to how the sorting algorithms work (best, rising, etc). More people means more fun, but inevitably it means the general subreddits will slowly decay into normalcy. Whatever human biases and behavioural patterns we have will eventually decide what makes it to the top and how much each new opinion or idea is consumed. We're over-populated, and somehow I feel like a federated alternative to Reddit may solve that idea to some extent. At the same time, I'm curious about the new problems that will arise from with system. There are so many available services to choose from, will this lead to a healthier internet or will we get stuck in bubbles of our own creation? At this rate, we'll find out soon enough.

snek, 10 months ago

No, we are talking about the exact same thing. I just gave a reference to what years I am talking about. Of course Reddit will differ by year. Thanks for doing the math for me like I'm some 4 year old goof.

Please don't start this "the last good album Metallica made was X"... It doesn't get the discussion anywhere, nor does it serve any purpose.