Hi everyone! I’m building Seamantic, a Mastodon client that introduces the “semantic feed” — a way to interact directly with the Semantic Web.
Here’s how it works:
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Ask Questions: Post queries to the semantic feed. Bots like SeBridge (which I introduced in an earlier post) connect to knowledge bases to provide answers by listening on Mastodon hashtags for queries.
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Contribute Data: Insert data into the feed by posting insert-queries, helping bots grow their underlying knowledge bases.
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Sea-Level: Track your balance—querying raises the “sea-level,” and contributing lowers it, encouraging collaboration. When the sea-level goes over a certain level, posting queries is blocked until the sea-level is lowered by contribution.
By connecting users and knowledge bases, the semantic feed creates a dynamic flow of high-quality, consensus-driven data.
What do you think of the idea? Feedback is always welcome.
davidgro@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah, this seems to assume that the set of people able and willing to make contributions overlaps the set interested in simply asking questions, and I can’t imagine that working. You know the rule that in any community 90% just lurk, 9% comment, and maybe 1% actually contribute. For everyone but the 1%, I foresee querying until they hit the limit, then they leave.
This might be somewhat mitigated by it being a very technical system to begin with, so even being interested in queries is a barrier.
blue_berry@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah, I know, thats a big problem of the idea. The answers would need to be really good.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 3 days ago
i mean, the sea level doesn’t have to be a limit… people edit wikipedia etc or contribute to reddit just because they like their number to be higher or their community reputation. i get that it’s meant to encourage contribution, but i think you’ll get more contribution by people just wanting to make the information better