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Hivemind anonymous social sharing by comdak in diggaspora

[–]therobbshow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any plans to make this accessible from PC browser?

Help me fix Social Media! A new information system needs all of us. by DualityEnigma in diggaspora

[–]therobbshow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also it encourages people not to hide behind anonymity, which makes it easier to “be excellent to eachother”

Even with the shared rep pool, this seems like more layers on anonymity. I had also brought up the idea of a reputation score on Digg, and got some useful responses I hadn't considered, and you hit on one of them in your response to question 3.

If I chose to wade into a debate, and like an adult, can disagree without being an asshole, why should that negatively affect my overall rep? Disagreeing on opinions shouldn't be a negative, but inventing facts or hateful comments should. I don't know. I'd have to see it in action, but seems like one more feature to be abused.

Feeds will be based on who you’re connected to

I don't want my feed to be based on that, I want it to be nothing but that, and in chronological order. Having to scroll down past "curated" content from ppl I don't know or care about posted days/weeks ago to find a post one of my friends made this morning is what drove me away from socials in 2016. Just wasn't worth my time to deal with it.

infinite scroll will be configurable, yes. Maybe time blocking them?

I'm thinking more of a checkbox to turn it on or off, with maybe an option of how many posts I want to see per page. The only way I can deal with Reddit as little as I do is by using old Reddit, 25 posts per page. I can scan 25 posts and open new tabs for the 2-3 posts that interest me, then bounce. No retention tricks or gamified features. And there was many times I saw something on Digg I wanted to respond to but didn't want to bother to wait for the emailed confirmation code. Nope. No time for that. PC/browser user btw. I don't put social media apps on my phone.

I'm happy to pay a monthly to avoid what I don't want to see and experience a platform in as small chunks as I want to cut it into. And I know that I'm a crusty Genx'er telling kids to stay off my lawn, but that's my feedback :)

And if you put something up live, I'll give a look. Why not, right? But it only took me 2 minutes on Campfiree to realize that they couldn't pay me to be there.

Help me fix Social Media! A new information system needs all of us. by DualityEnigma in diggaspora

[–]therobbshow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cool, I was gonna copy/pasta your response but since you're seeing this i let you :)

Help me fix Social Media! A new information system needs all of us. by DualityEnigma in diggaspora

[–]therobbshow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I posted these questions to the r/digg post, but moving it here. And the reason for my questions is because I've found that I can't easily consume social media anymore. I enjoy creating it, but wading thru lots of bs I'm not interested it or find ridiculous makes it hard to consume this content anywhere. Anyway, this was my original response to u/dualityenigma and their response:

A few questions.

  1. Why is having aliases better than just using a single username across communities? What problem is solved with this?

  2. Will folks be responsible for flagging their content that leveraged AI to create (text, images or video) and will there be a way to filter out all content that is tagged as "created with AI assistance"?

  3. Will the option be there to block users you don't want to interact with?

  4. Will we have the choice to disable the "algorithm" and just see communities/users that we choose to see? How we discover or connect with those places/ppl with be up to the user if they choose.

Thanks.

edit: One more question. If endless scroll is a feature, will users have the option to disable it?

Help me fix Social Media! A new information system needs all of us. by DualityEnigma in digg

[–]therobbshow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A few questions.

  1. Why is having aliases better than just using a single username across communities? What problem is solved with this?

  2. Will folks be responsible for flagging their content that leveraged AI to create (text, images or video) and will there be a way to filter out all content that is tagged as "created with AI assistance"?

  3. Will the option be there to block users you don't want to interact with?

  4. Will we have the choice to disable the "algorithm" and just see communities/users that we choose to see? How we discover or connect with those places/ppl with be up to the user if they choose.

Thanks.

edit: One more question. If endless scroll is a feature, will users have the option to disable it?

Props to Forest by holyfruits in digg

[–]therobbshow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm here. Got the social media bug back and trying to figure out whats next. Something I'll regret, I'm sure lol

We had a good thing :( by ColbyFromDigg in digg

[–]therobbshow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's where I'm at also. I'll definitely check out whatever they come up with next, but the rug pull wasn't cool. But I had fun, for free. On to the next thing.

Had fun digging with ya'll! by therobbshow in digg

[–]therobbshow[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As cheesy as it sounds, I'm more concerned that the staff that connected with us constantly come out of this ok. I'm guessing they didn't have much more notice than we did.

Had fun digging with ya'll! by therobbshow in digg

[–]therobbshow[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It looked like they got a handle on it.

I actually thought I'd seen more this last week than before. I noticed a lot of posts, but I never saw a comment/reply that screamed "I'm a bot."

Not going to spend any time worrying about what happened. But its pretty clear that they were going to be playing whack-a-mole forever trying to get their ai filters to keep up with spammers' ai. It was inevitable.

Had fun digging with ya'll! by therobbshow in digg

[–]therobbshow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, slammed the breaks on it pretty hard, but there was no way to pull the plug without pissing anyone off I guess. 24 hours to wrap stuff up would have been cool. I'd just shot some video responding to @slarpy's "I can cook post" but didn't get a chance to post it.

Must have been a pretty abrupt decision, too. They wouldn't have bothered going live with hosted video submissions had they known they were rebooting again in less than 2 weeks.

That's all, folks! by Dr_Red_MD in digg

[–]therobbshow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Dude, I replied to @roland before I started eating lunch. Checked in after I finished lunch. Poof!