Lemmy account age and Github experience are absolute orthogonal data points, how is that even something to be brought as an argument?

If you want to suggest features or improvements, please take a look at the Github repository.

The solution is to go to subscribe to Reddit RSS feeds so that we find stuff to repost here.

(Only half-joking)

All the crypto stuff is opt-in.

The main reason is that I strongly believe that we need to move away from server-centric software for social media and to start working on a local-first application that can browse the social web “natively”. I wrote a series of blog posts explaining the shortcomings of current AP server software, and how the current architecture will not be enough to achieve mainstream.

I’ve already developed a generic ActivityPub Server and I recently started exploring the client side as well.

Is there any chance you’d consider implementing this as a “generic” ActivityPub client? Instead of using Lemmy’s API, you could query the AP endpoints directly.

Ok, but the whole idea of Fediverser is to let people get rid of Twitter/Reddit by giving people an alternative source of content. Sending content there would make those platforms more interesting, not less.

But why would you want your comments to be on Twitter?

If you mean that posts on Lemmy would be mirrored to Twitter, no.

a lot of low-quality posts that have been vetted by no one

It would be posts made by relevant reporters. So some type of vetting has been done already - by their own editors. ;)

Also: this could be implemented in a way that only presents a queue of posts to moderators, and moderators could then choose what gets published.

quality of Twitter and Reddit deteriorating

This is not really relevant. The idea is to get just the posts from the sport reporters, not the whole comment thread.

If you really mean communities, then I’m not sure I agree with any of the premises… Having “big” communities is not a bad thing. it’s already super difficult to get enough of a critical mass in any new community, and you are proposing a mechanism that will make it even harder. I also don’t think we shouldn’t be thinking in terms of “competition” when it comes to communities.

Unless you have deep disagreements with the mods of a community (no matter on which instance they are), it’s simpler/faster/easier for everyone if we stick to the already established places.

Communities or instances?

Ok, which part of “multiple metrics” is not clear here?

Every risk analysis will have multiple factors. The idea is not to always have an absolute perfect ranking system, but to build a classifier that is accurate enough to filter most of the crap.

Email spam filters are not perfect, but no one inbox is drowning in useless crap like we used to have 20 years ago. Social media bots are presenting the same type of challenge, why can’t we solve it in the same way?

Platforms like Reddit and Tumblr need to optimize for growth. We need to have growth, but it is does not be optimized for it.

Yeah, things will work like a little elitist club, but all newcomers need to do is find someone who is willing to vouch for them.

Just add “account age” to the list of metrics when evaluating their trust rank. Any account that is less than a week old has a default score of zero.

Why does have it to be one or the other?

Why not use all these different metrics to build a recommendation system?

Well, I am on record saying that we should get rid of one-dimensional voting systems so I see your point.

But if anything, there is nothing stopping us from using both metrics (and potentially more) to build our feed.

That would be only true if people only marked that they trust people that conform with their worldview.

The indieweb already has an answer for this: Web of Trust. Part of everyone social graph should include a list of accounts that they trust and that they do not trust. With this you can easily create some form of ranking system where bots get silenced or ignored.

You were so eager to come up with a jab at other people that you seem to have ignored the second paragraph. It is pretty clear that you could benefit from a bit of introspection to look what you could offer to the world, instead of just trying to put everyone down.

Wishing you well.