Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion
Skavau@piefed.social 8 hours agoThat means that most /all/ content on every single fediverse instance will be hugely biased in favour of local content.
Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion
Skavau@piefed.social 8 hours agoThat means that most /all/ content on every single fediverse instance will be hugely biased in favour of local content.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 7 hours ago
If one wanted to ensure that external content is still easily visible, one could always have things set up so that posts on local communities only appears in local and subscribed, and only posts from outside appear in all (though it might need to be renamed to better fit such a layout I suppose)
Skavau@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Well, sure, that would stop that - but I don’t see what benefit this gives the fediverse really. You would actually be giving small privately hosted instances enormous voting power across the fediverse, so grants opportunity for manipulation.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 7 hours ago
thats fair I suppose, though in practice id assume that making a whole bunch of individual instances is probably more difficult than making a much of accounts on one instance that you control, and thus vote manipulation in this manner should have a higher barrier to entry?
Skavau@piefed.social 7 hours ago
I mean to be fair, a user could simply make accounts across the hundreds of tiny forgotten fediverse servers that exist and upvote and downvote from there, skewing results.