Comment on Instance Protectionism in the Threadiverse happens because of the Prisoner’s Dilemma (protecting one's own instance is currently more sensible than increasing overall discussion quality)

fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• blue_berry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Remember, there’s no revenue to compete over here. Analyses that depend on standard capitalist competition should be expected to not only be inaccurate here, but incoherent. They simply don’t describe the actual incentives for people’s behavior.

  Maybe, but its just a model. You need to be more specific. I want at least a counter-example ;)

  From a game theory perspective: You have no reason to believe that this specific payoff matrix actually describes the situation here. There are lots of other games besides the Prisoners Dilemma. Are you really sure you’re not looking at a Stag Hunt, or a Battle of the Sexes (terrible name, but that’s what the papers call it)?

  Oh, I think you are right. Stag Hunt does fit better … But I think it doesn’t change anything about the overall argumentation (I actually accidentally used the numbers of stag hunt in the picture)

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  • cre0@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    it seems you’re being excessively critical of the defining feature of the software.

    you can go back to reddit if that software meets your needs better.

    changing the federated nature of lemmy et al would just make it a different product. that product already exists and you left it for this one.

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    • blue_berry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m all in for federation. Thats what I’m actually trying to improve

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• blue_berry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh, shit, I actually got the numbers wrong. For the prisoners dilemma, it should be (-1, -1) in the bottom-right corner

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  • blue_berry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Here are the updated versions.

    This one is if you look at one moment in time:

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    This one includes future development of the Threadiverse and the consequence of the action for that:

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    The second one isn’t prioners dilemma but battle of the sexes (yeah really dump name). I removed the All-Feed option, because for smaller instances it has really no merit to promote it.

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    • blue_berry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The explore-feed here is simply to put a probablity on local and all-posts. So its a feed that randomly picks post from local or all. Let’s say you get three out of four posts from all federated instances and one from your local instance. This would direct user engagment to the threadiverse but not drain an instances user engagement all together (especially for smaller instances).

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