It’s okay. I kind of like that you have your “people I follow” feed, then a separate “local” feed with everyone on your particularly server, then the “federated” feed, which is the entire environment (and way too busy to even try to keep up with). Remains to be seen if I’ll use it much, though.
True, but at some point they begin banning IP addresses and that tends to put a crimp in that. You can still get around it, but it becomes exponentially harder. But @VeronicaConnor is correct in noting that only humans can properly moderate a space. Algorithms are terrible at it. Humans can make value judgements; algorithms can only go by what has been programmed in, and are woefully slow to adapt, as well as easily gamed once the hate brigade knows the tricks.
I disagree. It was his 4 years of being a shit president and Joe Biden not being a woman. That’s it.
No, I think he honestly wants to get right wing fascists elected, because he grew up in a racist, segregated society with a underclass that he as a white man could exploit with impunity, and he’s happy to build that kind of society once again here in America. He’s a fascist.
from what i understand, they have an import feature, so you can import the list of people you follow from Twitter and it will search and see if those people have Masto accounts, so that’s intriguing to me if there’s a substantial exodus from Twitter. i don’t relish rebuilding my circle of people on a new platform, otherwise.
AI is as good as the data it’s trained on. So have humans classify enough data and the AI will catch up, then audit and refine. Human moderation of this forum is the only option as AI driven would be expensive and I don’t think there is enough data points to train a good AI, but twitter does have the money and the data.
Ah, that’s good to know. I’ll look into that at some point I’m sure. Thanks!
I’m telling you, as an IT specialist for over twenty years now, algorithms simply cannot replace human intervention and moderation. They have YET to do so on ANY platform, Facebook, Twitter, Google, you name the platform and the algorithms have failed. The systems keep being gamed, and no matter how good the data is, algorithms fall down the steps and go boom.
People work. The reason they rely on algorithms is because it’s cheaper. Not because they work.
To add to @cepheus42’s point, I think there is something really important to understand about machine learning. Given a solid and representative data set, it gets very good at interpolating. But it never gets competent at extrapolating.
So if you have a case where the underlying set being classified is liable to expand, as would happen with people trying to figure out ways around algorithms, you can’t really depend on it.
In some of my experience of machine learning algorithms also, underlying sets are sometimes amplified to make them on par with a larger set.
So in the case of twitter, I’d imagine that would be small amounts of very loud very vocal people being weighted as highly as large amounts of quiet and considerate people
Trump doesn’t do long games. Immediate satisfaction, or fuck everybody are the only two things he knows.
The easy way to get him re-banned though would be to have a bunch of people convince him Musk said something bad about him. The resulting anti-Musk rants would get him banned for sure. (After all, badmouthing the crook in charge isn’t free speech, it’s hate speech!)
I understand that there are mods that look at marked accounts and automute/block followers of that account which cuts down on a massive amount of the pile-on problem. And whilst it is true that this is something of a sledgehammer solution, at the moment that’s all we have realistically got.
(edit: me - I just read tweets from accounts I find interesting. I miss not being able to reply maybe about 10% of the time.)
