Not a bad set! I would add something related to “funny”.

Also, separating agree (opinion) from accurate (factual) would be nice. But I guess you gotta keep it somewhat simple.

Yes. Perhaps fairly chaotic for a decade or two, but then much better 😅

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Political_systems

Have a read of Wengrow and Graeber’s The Dawn Of Everything. It’s a re-examination of the political implications of archeology, and it’s pretty inspiring. Definitely dispelled me of any notion that capitalism or communism or totalitarianism were the only plausible systems.

Vendor lock-in.

Right, thanks. Still a super useful system, IMO, though I’m sure better versions are possible.

That’s true, but it’s gotta be balanced by limiting the fallout of extreme cases on other users

It doesn’t accumulate and display anywhere though, does it?

Maybe. They might also mean you’re an idiot.

Slashdot used to have a multidimensional voting system that would allow you to up or down vote something based on whether it was funny/insightful/correct, etc (can’t remember the dimension). I wish we had something like that. Sometimes it would be useful to mark a comment as “funny, but also wrong”

There ate multiple algorithms, but I don’t think any of them account for both votes and comments… I might be wrong though.

Tangent: the "scaled* algorithm, which normalises post ranks by the popularity of the community they’re posted to, is excellent. I recommend everyone use it as their default.

Out of interest, were US Panamanians (?) Part of the more general Latin swing toward trump?

Not trying to say it’s good, but I do wonder how those people are feeling/thinking now.

Most by number of users, I’d guess.

I’m on mastodon.social, and basically never see threads posts.

Australia.

I would argue that global wages and conditions should be better, in which case Aus (and even more so the US) could more easily compete.

I suspect the distributed moderation will help in the long run too.

Most of the core mastodon servers haven’t blocked threads…

1. Disruption: Probably ethics? I mean, I know big global businesses barely have any, but they do care about their reputation somewhat. Anyone running a botnet to destroy small/medium fediverse servers would be discovered fairly quickly, I suspect. Nothing is going to stop AI training scraping outside of regulation, I suspect.

2. Ads are enshittification. Federation is defense against it, because it prevents vendor lock-in and allows migration while maintaining your network effect. Threads already tried to join, and nearly nothing of theirs gets through. I’m on a mainstream mastodon service that doesn’t block threads, and I’ve seen a threads post only once or twice. Threads can’t display their add on my service, so there’s no incentive for them to push content.

Maybe we should do a bit more of our own manufacturing anyway. Globalised supply chains are a fucking stupid idea, considering climate change.

True! Thanks for the learning opportunity :)

Ah, that explains it, thanks! It’s a cool looking script!

Hrm, I guess… But it’s the 23rd most spoken language globally… Nearly 90 million speakers, and I don’t think I’ve even seen the alphabet until now. I feel like I’ve seen lots of posts from less populous languages…