It's not so much about deciding what we see, it's about helping us find content that we missed. If you posted something while I wasn't using Nostr, I'll never see it unless it's good enough content that is shared consistently throughout the day. It's a problem. Algorithms would help bring certain content to the top of a feed. I'd like an untouched as is feed and an algorithm of my choosing feed to help surface content that I haven't seen yet, but was shared by a lot of people I follow earlier in the day.
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Absolutely, I do not think the idea of algo is the problem. Algos working in ways unknown to us and that we cannot turn off or control are the problem.
I am sure we will be surprised by how amazing an algo designed by a person with good intentions could be.
Something like a highlights of the day feed. Based on some combination of how many likes, comments, zaps, and web of trust score. It should be user configureable so the user can toggle those criteria and any other criteria. You could also adjust the timeframe so you could have highlights of the day, week, month, all-time hall of fame.
Primal is doing some aspect of this with the trending and most zapped column which is very cool.
The following+ tab on nostrgram is pretty cool but doesn't really help with the time issue.
The trust score is a concept that fascinates me. Has anyone cracked a model that can generate and analyse quantitative data and provide good results? I’d love to apply to the field of education. Decentralized education is my obsession.
Gonna think out loud for a few paragraphs, do not mind me. Stuff comes out differently when typing.
Trust Score or more precisely Trustworthiness Score
When I think about decentralized education , one of the key component is the need for a built in academic accreditation system. There is already good research on how to assess the quality and effectiveness of teaching, relying on multiple streams of information that can then be made quantitative, compiled and turned into a quite effective score. The main problem is the they rely on other people’s opinion for the majority of these streams. How can I know who should be trusted when providing feedback and who should not? It’s tough in the real world, even more so online. We live in a world full of bots we cannot let quantity do the work hoping that the outliners will be identified and removed.
Trustworthiness needs to be tracked and quantified. But how? We could punish bad behavior. But, that’s not really how trust works, that’s how distrust works. Trust is a link built and maintained over time. The amounts of links a person has matters, but the quality (in terms of trust) of these links matters far more. How could these be tracked and quantified in the context of a decentralized education protocol (and other contexts)?
Gonna think out loud for a few paragraphs, do not mind me. Stuff comes out differently when typing.
Trust Score or more precisely Trustworthiness Score
When I think about decentralized education , one of the key component is the need for a built in academic accreditation system. There is already good research on how to assess the quality and effectiveness of teaching, relying on multiple streams of information that can then be made quantitative, compiled and turned into a quite effective score. The main problem is the they rely on other people’s opinion for the majority of these streams. How can I know who should be trusted when providing feedback and who should not? It’s tough in the real world, even more so online. We live in a world full of bots we cannot let quantity do the work hoping that the outliners will be identified and removed.
Trustworthiness needs to be tracked and quantified. But how? We could punish bad behavior. But, that’s not really how trust works, that’s how distrust works. Trust is a link built and maintained over time. The amounts of links a person has matters, but the quality (in terms of trust) of these links matters far more. How could these be tracked and quantified in the context of a decentralized education protocol (and other contexts)?
I love the network view in Primal. I trust the people I follow to follow good stuff, but can’t always count on their reposts.
Oh wow I just played around with Primal some more right now and realized that it is already a lot closer to what I described using the explore button. It is quite good. The only thing I don't really see which would be cool is the ability to adjust the time-frame of trending