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Ocean 2 years ago
Algos are the last thing I want on nostr. Even with a decent amount of followers, it often feels like I’m shouting into the void. That’s OK, but it’s really going to suck when algos just make popular people more popular. I suppose algos could be used to boost newbie and mid-level accounts only, but I really doubt that’s what people are going to build or ask for. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ I skipped the entire Web 2.0 social media space for the last 10 to 15 years because I didn’t like the things that it incentivizes. I really want to help build real community and empower regular people to have a voice and ideally make real lasting friendships.
I sure hope they take a different approach with algos here, allow them to be completely customizable per user to the point that my algo is giving me a completely different feed than yours even if we follow similar people, having different interests means showcasing some of their content and ignoring other parts of the one you don’t care for. But like I said completely customizable by the user on the client level never the protocol level. I’m sure everyone would be happy if something like that existed..
that's the whole point broad range of algorithms don't centralize among popular accounts, they allow you to very specifically find the type of content you are interested in and your tribe algorithms have a bad reputation because legacy web needed to have a single generic algorithm that would maximize for revenue and would apply to everybody, they can't give you control over it and that's how we win playing a game they CAN'T play
certainly you can't force that algorithm on people but you can certainly offer it to them I think there's a lot of appetite for that I will also make a DVM to find people who post thought-out notes but have little engagement
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Ocean 2 years ago
I’m so happy that somebody with your values and philosophy is building on here every day Thank you Pablo.
the NIP is just NIP-90, data vending machines Imagine if on a client like e.g. Primal, the trending topics had a pagination button and you could paginate through hundreds of different DVMs with completely different algorithms and imagine if someone, like me, were to build a site, like vendata, were you can see and interact (and choose which one is your favorite so other clients can use that) of countless algorithms (each one of this DVMs takes maybe 30 minutes to write) image
Thank you. Everybody that's here now is shaping what we're all building together. πŸ’œ
Hmm, actually that could probably work. The code for these things is actually really simple. In fact, right now Vendata allows you to provide as an input text for an LLM. So you will be able to tell it: "find people that have few likes but post interesting things about photography" and literally have that DVM as one of your columns in e.g. primal or snort or something and it would run every X time and provide you with new people to follow
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Ocean 2 years ago
Ok now that is super exciting
they did a test when I was like 6 or so and I got 135, it gave me a lot of problems as a kid so I never took that shit too seriously I met plenty of people with high IQs that were completely useless; I consider it conceptually invalid like GDP and stuff like that πŸ˜‚
afaik it's not supposed to change with age or minimally again, it's like talking about the sex of unicorns; it's all made up anyway πŸ˜‚
I don’t think it’s completely invalid. As an experiment my whole class in high school was forced to do an IQ test. Those who excelled at mathematics tended to get much higher scores than those who struggled with mathematics. But yeh IQ fails to show others aspects and characteristics of one’s personality. There’s a lot of high iq people who are lazy and lot of low IQ people who are hardworking. So it’s a terrible predictor of where you end up in life. I think it’s more just a good test of how individually efficiently you can solve problems.
yeah, that's my issue with it; it's used to measure something that it has little relationship with. It's largely used as a predictor of "success in life" and that is so far from what is being measured.
Where did you get that from this lol β€œbroad range of algorithms don't centralize among popular accounts, they allow you to very specifically find the type of content you are interested in and your tribe” If you’re sharing meaningful stuff which is meaningful to others that are interested in it they will find it if I’m not interested in the meaningful stuff you share I can choose to not see it, you might be trending n all but if I choose that isn’t the content I want to see I won’t see it.
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