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lime@feddit.nu 2 days agoif you want posts to spontaneously coalesce with some kind of shared Metadata, you want the ML content analysis information of the post to go out before the actual post is published
i don’t understand this assertion at all. the post is the post. surely we want to classify the post based on the content of the post? tags are contained in posts. your client can just add the relevant info before sending it. figure out potential categories locally, query the server for which of them are popular, and either pick one or have the user select one.
Coopr8@kbin.earth 1 day ago
The difference is that I'm talking about the automation creating completely new groupings, most akin to a community on Lemmy, that coordinated across multiple users, in my mind "simultaneously" with the user still agreeing to opt in to inclusion in that group.
There is an alternative way to do this, which would be that the automation groups the posts after posting, however there is a question there about opt-in, will users want to opt existing posts in after the fact?
One way that definitely would be easiest to implement would be if these groupings are essentially threads with a single piece of content as the "start" / "seed" of the thread and the other posts relating to that thread. Regarding opt-in for that I suppose it could be as easy as enabling/disabling "thread seeding"
lime@feddit.nu 1 day ago
so fun fact, that’s already how lemmy works. communities are not a thing in ap, so you can technically post to whatever community you want, existing or not. the lemmy software then limits users from posting to nonexistent communities. and ap already has the notion of posts having parents, so threading is also built in.
Coopr8@kbin.earth 6 hours ago
Very interesting, so just with a tweak to the client you could treat communities as basically (hash)tags instead of forums? I suppose what I'm thinking of amounts to unique tag identifiers that are computer identifiable based on subject matter / content. I know that effectively this is what is going on under the hood of the social graph at the large social media sites, but rather than connecting the content together into transparent collections they instead serve it to individuals through the suggestion engine as part of feeds.
Something both "spontaneous" and somewhat transparent in at least the grouping/collection is what I think would differentiate the feature, but how to defend it from manipulation is a big question. How do you protect algorithm/AI guided curation from AI guided manipulation seeking to maximize placement of content in as many groups/collections as possible? Even a reputation system could just be used to reenforce more advanced content placement techniques.
I guess there is always the big shrug, if it is relevant it is relevant.
lime@feddit.nu 5 hours ago
yeah personally i’m fine with chronological feeds and wouldn’t want an algorithm.