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I'm not terribly interested in reading what people have paid a buck to say. What would be much more interesting is an app that allowed anyone to say anything fo
by RMarcus 12y ago
I'm not terribly interested in reading what people have paid a buck to say. What would be much more interesting is an app that allowed anyone to say anything for free, and then filtered all those posts down to 20 posts for each user. So each user gets a different 20 posts, and (assuming a user posts only once a day) each user's post is seen by 20 people.
That'd be an interesting way of solving the "firehose" problem on sites like Twitter. Then, perhaps, you add on Pandora-like "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" features so that the service can pick better posts for you.
- svillafe 12y ago@RMarcus Thanks for your feedback, that's a very good idea, but an entirely different app. Vint tries to maximize the audience of each post by showing everyone the same 20 messages.
- k__ 12y agoThis would solve the "firehose" problem, but it would also make the "filter bubble" problem more worse. 1. People get much crap, because it's hyped by media. 2. People get much crap, because they like it. The first thing leads to dumb opinions to be stuffed into peoples brains and the second leads to a feedback loop, which makes the first effect even stronger.