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> I don't think that an assurance on who wrote what is always necessary I'm not saying it is always necessary, but that it is a recurring problem that occur bu
by fiatjaf 10y ago
> I don't think that an assurance on who wrote what is always necessary
I'm not saying it is always necessary, but that it is a recurring problem that occur but txt.fyi doesn't care about.
> most people use anonymity to share more candidly where they otherwise feel repressed.
It doesn't matter if you share something anonymously in txt.fyi if nobody is ever going to find it.
> And I think "worth" is best decided by the reader, and a human touch continues to be superior to any technical solutions we've come up with.
You're proposing that we go read everything on the internet to pass our judgments on what is worth. That was the problem in first place. Categorization, ratings and reputation are some of the solutions already tried. I don't know if they've solved everything or if there is room for better solutions. What I know is that txt.fyi doesn't care about this problem.
> But what other problems do you think exist with text publishing services? Or what do you think needs to change? How do we solve those things?
I don't know. I just imagine that there are many problems we know of (such as the ones I listed) and the author of txt.fyi is not trying to solve any of these. Other problems may exist or come into existence, and it is up to platform developers to try to solve them too. There is of course room for pure plain text published anonymously, but the supply is already immense there. I don't think we should incentive new developers to write one more of these services (and worse: keep running it an improving it technically for a long time).