this would be cool if it was a step toward a nationwide ban on social media
unfortunately it is not
Start with banning above 55s from social media, they’re the ones it’s actually fucking up. I’ve never seen a teenager believe and share AI slop like my in-laws do.
I believe we should ban everyone from social media.
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Unironically I do think we should ban algorithmic social media. Like Hexbear is fine but if content is served over an algorithm it should be banned. Go back to the days of following manually and stuff. Engagement bait dominates now and its rotting peoples brains.
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Hexbear also has an algorithm. Upvotes increase visibility, age decreases visibility, posts are weighted by community size etc.
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The algorithm should be simple enough that you can write it out and look at it. Hexbears is a clear mathematical formula based on upvotes, comments, time, etc., not a black box that maximizes attention
https://github.com/hexbear-collective/lemmy/pull/6
That’s the Active sort algorithm, which I restored to the original Hexbear Active sort after we merged back to upstream lemmy. See file up.sql for the actual algorithm. It’s unfortunately rather difficult to read for those not technically inclined, and kinda hard to understand clearly even for those who can read it. I came to understand it by trying out some basic examples to understand how it worked.
Basically, for several hours after a post, recent comments adjust the time of the post forward to make it come off as more recent, which pushes its rank higher. Right after the post is made, a comment can adjust the post time into the future, maximizing this effect. This effect fades away after several hours, though, such that posts 8 or 9 hours old or older have trouble rising to the top of the feed when competing with newer posts.
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I don’t think sorting is the same as an algorithm. Hot/Top/Controversial/New/Old are specific ways of sorting things. By Algorithmic I meant where they track every click, movement, and pause to decide what to show you next.
Sorting the feed is literally what any algorithm is, choosing what content to show when. I think what you’re against is personalised algorithms, but even for algorithms that just prioritise engagement or retention, it could be argued that hexbear’s algorithm does exactly that too. Albeit, not in as sophisticated a manner as say instagrams.
OK so let me be more clear:
I am fine with being able to click a button and say “Show me the stuff with the most engagement on the entire site in the last 24 hours” or something like that. Because that is the same for everyone and is just a way to find active discussions. What I am not fine with is where everyones feed is different and determined by specific things being tracked about them. I see it as unhealthy and addictive to the users and as promoting reactionary behavior in society at large.
any social media beholden to the profit motive is going to have the same problems. that’s the reason hexbear is less shit
I believe we should ban everyone
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60 year old British MP texts young female friend: “Skull Island real???”
You have weekly progroms organised on social media by adults Kid Harmer.
The people who are going to remove you from office primary means of getting backing is lying to adults on Facebook.
What are you doing.
Using the pretense of protecting kids to install a system that makes as many people as possible identifiable online. ofc he will not use this against mobs of violent fascists, but against anybody calling the genocide in Gaza a genocide, but obviously this entire thing is about political control of social media, it has nothing to do with protecting children on these platforms.
Critical support for Kid Starver’s policy to indirectly teach tech literacy and problem-solving skills to a new generation by forcing them to circumnavigate technological padlocks.
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