The worse part about bluesky is its "Reputation System", which can limit your reach in the "What's hot" section if you said something "hateful".
Even if someone you invite (with invitation code) ends up saying something "hateful", that will also negatively impact your "reputation."
This is North Korea type Censorship.
Damn, didn’t know about this…
Signed up a few days ago, but to be honest I prefer the vibes on Nostr. When I saw the first .eth in the name I didn’t really look at it again except open it every now and then, closing it and heading back to #nostr 😅
Under the hood, there is no decentralization. That entire platform is running on a single server hosted by Bluesky.
Oh i am sure that wont be abused in any way lol
Exactly, these systems have never been abused. We should just trust them I guess.
#nostr is the way. Same as #bitcoin. You won't be able to replace either one with some other bullshit idea.
Criticizing our "prestige protocol" deducts you -3K points. Please do your best and not spread doubts to our fair system 👁️
Gross
The second an algorithm controls what is seen, the social network becomes pointless
Yup, Chinese style social credit score. (This type of control is going to be tried everywhere…)
I think something can be done to assess online trustworthiness, but more by rewarding good behavior and long lasting and diverse relationship than punishing bad behavior.
Trust is a link built and maintained over time.
I don't hate recommendation algorithms, that's quietly literally my main field but they should be used for discovery not for censorship.
A global, top-down "reputation" is a horrible idea. Instead we need a bottom-up approach.
We need "Trust Lists" that work like follow lists and block lists only they're the people you trust to moderate your content for you. So let people in your community determine the reputations of people - don't leave it to some global censor.
Given that that article is a dozen years old - do you know if anyone has studied to see if it still holds water. A lot has happened on the topic of online credibility in the past decade…
Sadly the interesting stuff I found was behind paywalls. I just found it interesting in its approach.
I’ve done a few rounds of search on the topic as I see it as the base for a whole lot of stuff (in my case decentralized academic accreditation) but I’d say from what is available freely nobody has cracked it, and there are some pretty horrible ideas floating.
Woow, that's neat! Now they only need to link it to every aspect of your offline life and make it the mandatory and only legal social media.
🫣 ooooo interesting
does bluesky support alternative clients like damus?
The blue bird app does this as well, correct?
