Tehdastehdas

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Federated Social Media with Topic-Based Following and Blocking? in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Not Fediverse, but an example of what works:

Quora used to have a fantastic crowd-edited question topic ontology/taxonomy for precise feed shaping with thousands of disambiguated topics interlinked in a graph/tree structure, but they enshittified the system away 2023, and now it's all LLM misunderstandings of what the question topics should be. The bot thinks a question is about apples when the question is a mathematics word puzzle; "How many apples...". The excuse for AI tagging was "tags can be abused" when in reality the crowd corrected the abuses quickly and reported the offenders. With the new AI tagger, my feed turned into viral trash from Quora-celebrities, mostly about current news.

They never made the obviously needed features of:

  • being able to topic tag answers, not just questions (for when the question is general and the answer is specific, like "What do you think everyone needs to know in 2025?").
  • the ability to follow a topic from a user, because most people write about many topics, so a follow-a-user brings uninteresting topics to my feed, but not all people write well about that topic I want to follow, so I'd need to follow that topic from good writers only.
Woman takes 10x dose of turmeric, gets hospitalized for liver damage in c/publichealth@mander.xyz
[–] Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also microdoses are usually decidoses, but that's irrelevant because in this use mega means large and micro means small. Microcar. Microcomputer.

But what size are microplastics when also mentioning nanoplastics? Are they still "5mm and smaller"?

Meta said it supports proposals for an EU-wide age of digital adulthood, below which minors would need parental consent to use social media in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Commanding a bad/incompetent/overworked parent to become a good parent doesn't make it so.

Tinder to require new users in California to use facial recognition tech to verify their profiles in c/technology@piefed.social
[–] Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Insignificant improvement on the shit services Match Group owns and makes worse.

Tests to detect marijuana-impaired driving are based on 'pseudoscience,' argue researchers in c/science@lemmy.world
[–] Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

You can detect impaired driving by observing the car in traffic.

UN expert urges criminalizing fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying in c/climate@slrpnk.net
[–] Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

everything is made with fossil fuels and we need them

So let's stop burning them?

How I Got Scammed Out of $50,000 in c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
[–] Tehdastehdas@piefed.social -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds more like bad browser programming if it can't handle all content safely. Any risky action should pop up an administrator password query to activate.

‘People are going to die’: how Medicaid work requirements cost people their health insurance in c/health@lemmy.world
[–] Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder

unnatural death that is believed to occur due to social, political, or economic oppression, instead of direct violence.

Finland warms up the world's largest sand battery, the economics look appealing in c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
One major issue with social media is that it operates on a first come, first served basis. This essentially rules out the possibility of well-considered, well-researched content being successful. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
One major issue with social media is that it operates on a first come, first served basis. This essentially rules out the possibility of well-considered, well-researched content being successful. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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