Sign in

Post by @shom

shom
little shom
@shom
8h Public en edited

Algorithm is math not magic

Wonderful example of how to surface information to an user while respecting their privacy, with transparency, and still providing a self-curated experience.

Edit: what happens if I turn a quote post into a blog? Also, did it spam everyone with a notification of an edit? (Sorry, but testing account gotta be testing)

Stefano Marinelli - littleFedi @stefano

@fiend_unpleasant no AI features here. Good old deterministic computing.
It's a simple algo that will consider the people you follow. At the end of the page, there's a complete explanation:

Why am I seeing these posts?
Each post scores on signals this instance already holds, and the score halves as the post ages. Nothing is fetched from anywhere else, and nothing learns from what you open:

+2.5
per account you follow who boosted it
+1.0
脳 log of the favourites seen from here
+0.8
脳 log of the boosts seen from here
+0.6
脳 log of the replies seen from here
+1.2
you favourited, boosted or replied to this author in the last month
+1.0
carries a hashtag you follow
+0.8
continues a conversation you took part in
-1.0
the post is a reply
12h
the score halves for every this many hours since the post reached your feed
Your own posts, and anything you already favourited, bookmarked, boosted or replied to, are left out. At most two posts per author. Twenty entries, then the page ends: there is nothing more to scroll.

Your blocks, mutes and filters apply exactly as on every other timeline.

Replying to @shom
kasperd
kasperd
@kasperd @westergaard.social
7h Public edited
  • Open algorithms serving the end users - good
  • Secret algorithms ignoring the well being of users - bad
Replying to @kasperd@westergaard.social
shom
little shom
@shom
7h Public en

@kasperd@westergaard.social absolutely!
It's as if algorithms by themselves aren't bad but malintent, opaqueness, and blaming algorithms as a way to disavow responsibility is!

Replying to @shom
shom
shom
@shom @gts.shom.dev
7h Unlisted

@shom @stefano
weird, on GotoSocial using Phanpy I don't see your post that this quoted. I do see quoted posts from other platforms even though GtS doesn't support it yet (the version I'm running at least). The quoted post url is in the quoter's post maybe? I'll find some screenshots of both scenarios and send them to you later.

Replying to @shom@gts.shom.dev
fedops
fedops 馃挋馃挍
@fedops @fosstodon.org
6h Unlisted

@shom@gts.shom.dev @shom@littleone.littlefedi.social I see the post including the quote on Mastodon using Pachli.
@stefano

Replying to @fedops@fosstodon.org
shom
little shom
@shom
6h Unlisted en

@fedops@fosstodon.org thanks I suspect it's how GtS handles it that works for Phanpy when coming from Mastodon but not from littleFedi.

@shom@gts.shom.dev @stefano@littleone.littlefedi.social

Replying to @shom
shom
little shom
@shom
6h Public en

@stefano I'm doing weird things to find the edges. Here's one. If I take a quote post and then turn it into a blog two observations:

  • The first line is treated as the blog title, which in this case was just one line and it got cut off. This makes sense for how blogging needs to work but an observation.
  • The blog post retains no connection to the original post being quoted. While there are a lot of considerations around embedding any of that content, I do think it should post a link to the original post in the blog as a top level metadata type field. What do you think?