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You don't need to build a new network - one called the Fediverse (mostly made up of Mastodon and Pleroma and powered by the W3C standard ActivityPub) already ex
by solarkraft 7y ago
You don't need to build a new network - one called the Fediverse (mostly made up of Mastodon and Pleroma and powered by the W3C standard ActivityPub) already exists and lots of cool people are on there.
It is however sorely lacking a way to give silent Bobs more attention - who posts more just gets more attention. Luckily it doesn't have a business model that would prevent one from building something cool on top of it.
I think it'd be pretty cool to have a curation algorithm that the user can control.
- snisarenko 7y agoI am actually kind of interested in the problem of surfacing, high signal content on fediverse. Currently I built a few simple aggregators: https://pixelfed.club https://pixelfed.club https://mastodonia.club https://mastodonia.club But I am thinking of adding features to filter and surface, high signal/quality content.
- dredmorbius 7y agoLists work fairly well. I keep a set of three, by priority. "Top" is about 20 people I care to hear from, who post either rarely or very high quality. "Medium" is much less selective, and "Voluable" are overactive. I usually have the first two visible, frequently with "Home" (all followed profiles) as the 3rd stream. I add, move, & remove frequently. Another interesting dynamic on services permitting blocking is that, over time, the set of variously blocked accounts builds. This can go either way (submitter blocks follower, vice versa), but tends to result in interesting graph partitions over time.