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Agree with all. > ...biggest bottleneck is curation Yes and: I conluded ~1989 that curation was biggest value-add. A surplus of information ("infoglut" h/t BY

Agree with all. > ...biggest bottleneck is curation Yes and: I conluded ~1989 that curation was biggest value-add. A surplus of information ("infoglut" h/t BYTE Magazine) creates a scarcity of intepretation. Source: Was a "thread blaster" on CompuServe. Ran hub for modest niche BBS network. aka "Sysadmin". Spent most of my time moderating, filtering, summarizing, intepretting, operations, etc. Basically proto-journalism. Every day, I'm flabberghasted that social media forfeited that job/roll to recommenders. Algorithmic hate machines vs curation. Completely misses the point. Is proactively harming people and society. For the banality of mere profits. > ...X community notes A welcome innovation. Delighted it seems to be working. Very surprised it happened during Musk's reign. Would appreciate any links, cites about communite notes, if you have them handy. TIA.

LeonB 3y ago
I feel like an open social-graph could be used to create reputation and trust - opening up a lot of things and closing down many avenues of exploitation … or I guess I used to feel that way, that the combination of FoaF (friend-of-a-friend), OPML and RSS would somehow usher in a type of freedom. But Social Media TM sucked all the oxygen out of the room and locked away any hope of such things being broadly interoperable or able to create any general value that wasn’t fully controlled.
Gravityloss 3y ago
Hmm sorry don't have anything. I recall hearing about some international research project that was used as input when creating the Twitter community notes but can't find it anymore. Interesting graphical tools exist nowadays to navigate the citation web and I guess one could try to backpropagate from this paper by Twitter employees, (Wojcik 2022):: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.15723 https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.15723 Example navigation tool: https://www.connectedpapers.com/main/f983a4e27b457a502fba322be1efb675639dde86/Birdwatch%3A-Crowd-Wisdom-and-Bridging-Algorithms-can-Inform-Understanding-and-Reduce-the-Spread-of-Misinformation/graph https://www.connectedpapers.com/main/f983a4e27b457a502fba322...

LeonB 3y ago

I feel like an open social-graph could be used to create reputation and trust - opening up a lot of things and closing down many avenues of exploitation … or I guess I used to feel that way, that the combination of FoaF (friend-of-a-friend), OPML and RSS would somehow usher in a type of freedom. But Social Media TM sucked all the oxygen out of the room and locked away any hope of such things being broadly interoperable or able to create any general value that wasn’t fully controlled.

Gravityloss 3y ago

Hmm sorry don't have anything. I recall hearing about some international research project that was used as input when creating the Twitter community notes but can't find it anymore. Interesting graphical tools exist nowadays to navigate the citation web and I guess one could try to backpropagate from this paper by Twitter employees, (Wojcik 2022):: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.15723 https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.15723 Example navigation tool: https://www.connectedpapers.com/main/f983a4e27b457a502fba322be1efb675639dde86/Birdwatch%3A-Crowd-Wisdom-and-Bridging-Algorithms-can-Inform-Understanding-and-Reduce-the-Spread-of-Misinformation/graph https://www.connectedpapers.com/main/f983a4e27b457a502fba322...