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I've always wished there was a social network that applied some sort of "I am interested in [person] by [amount]%" premise, but recursively. E.g., suppose I te
by fenomas 4y ago
I've always wished there was a social network that applied some sort of "I am interested in [person] by [amount]%" premise, but recursively.
E.g., suppose I tell the network that I'm 80% interested in William Gibson, and I set my "see posts by" threshold to 60%. I would then see all posts from William Gibson, as well as any posts from people he's at least 75% interested in. And of course I'd also see posts from more distant connections, if the chain multiplies out to more than my view threshold.
Have any networks ever done something like this before? Or with "interest" swapped for "trust" or some other stat?
- toyg 4y agoYou don't understand: this is already done by social networks, behind the scenes. You just don't get to set those thresholds. They make money by tweaking those thresholds so that you'll be interested in what their paying customers (advertisers) actually want you to be interested in. Giving you back the power to change that, would be the end of their business model.
- feanaro 4y agoYou don't get to set neither the thresholds, nor crucially the people whose writings you'd like to see. At least not directly.
- andreigheorghe 4y agoYou do control who you follow on Twitter.
- aembleton 4y agoI want to do this for a review site.
- macspoofing 4y ago>I've always wished there was a social network that applied some sort of "I am interested in [person] by [amount]%" premise, but recursively. That's how they all worked in principle. The "problem" for FB, Twitter, YouTube (and others) is that some people trust Alex Jones and since the 2016 election we've been in a moral panic around misinformation (Russian or otherwise). Our big idea right now is making sure that tech conglomerates choose for us the people we should trust.