Eugen RochkoDuring the #Eunomia meeting, I was asked, who are the most influential accounts on Mastodon? I know what Mastodon thinks about popularity contests, so don't get me wrong, I am not going to publish what I find, but I am thinking of methodologies for determining who in this network has influence.
I didn't say "influencer". I didn't talk about Instagram users pushing sponsored products. I didn't talk about users who put "thoughtleader" into their bio as if that would make it true.
Anyway, I can't resist sharing some of my thoughts on this. Ranking by follower counts alone is boring. Admin accounts artificially inflated through the Tom effect.
Running the follow relationships through PageRank makes the results a bit more interesting, but I still feel like that's not it--the results are too influenced by my personal follows, and it's hard to agree that some of my personal friends have influence on the community just because I follow them...
healyn@Gargron i appreciate your transparency, and i think the best way to rank users is how often people respond "god damnit" or "god damn" or some other variation to their posts
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