Comment on NSFW on Lemmy

• Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think it’s a habit carried over from reddit’s algo, which would rank communities you downvote as less likely to be shown to you. People don’t really understand how the /all algo works on lemmy (which as I understand it is just the most recently interacted things on the network, blatted out of a hose?)

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  • rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It is 100% a bad habit inherited from Reddit, and this is one of the many reasons that I wish Fediverse developers stopped trying to emulate the closed platforms and started using ActivityPub as a powerful social graph which can be shared by a single client.

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    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I think it might be too early in the life of the fediverse to completely dispense with the underlaying concept - we’ve only barely gotten enough users to have unique-to-lemmy content - but it’s an interesting article & a similarly interesting take. Certainly something should be done to increase new communities ‘discoverability’ to the broad userbase. The current /all algo is already a huge improvement over the very early days, so there’s probably value in developing the idea further (including potentially adopting that social graph idea, though implementation would be… difficult, while maintaining the decentralized control the fediverse was explicitly designed to have)

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      • rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Phanpy (a client for Mastodon) is showing that we can have the customization and discoverability happening in-device. Decentralization would improve if we stop relying on this platform-centric approach and started building on generic ActivityPub servers.

        Anyway, sorry for the tangent. I feel like that this generation of developers just keep making the mistakes from the past when they could instead learn from the elders.

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• 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Huh, I browse Subscribed regularly, All I don’t? When a post doesn’t belong in a community I know (ie regardless of subscription status) I vote down.

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  • rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You took my comment way too literally, then. What I am asking is for people that browse by /all to stop downvoting everything they see, as if there were trying to train some algorithm.

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    • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This can’t be real?

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      • rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        What? That people browse by /all and downvote everything they don’t like? You can bet that this is standard practice. I’ve argued with a good number of people who treat the /all feed just as a regular feed and feel completely justified in downvoting anything they don’t personally like.

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      • rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Take a look at these and tell me if these people are down voting because they are interested in the community or they are just trying to bury posts they don’t like:

        • lemvotes.org/post/communick.news/post/3897488

        • lemvotes.org/post/communick.news/post/3839154

        • communick.news/post/3822175

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