David PfauNov 12, 2022
I still think this site has potential long term, but honestly, I've been back to The Other Site a lot more lately, just because it's too hard to look away from a trainwreck as it's happening. Yes, yes, can't let the public square be owned by billionaires, gotta build a new model for social media, etc etc. But... there's just nothing as remotely outrageous happening over here. I feel like I have to enjoy the show while it lasts.
Show threadMark RiedlNov 12, 2022

@pfau

I am finding more informative, work-related posts here now. And I even open the local feed on sigmoid.social. But I keep going back to birdsite for the disaster tourism.

Show threadJacob EisensteinNov 12, 2022
@Riedl @pfau This site needs lots more self-promotion of arXiv preprints (I'm serious)
Show threadMark RiedlNov 12, 2022
@jacobeisenstein @pfau Yeah, I was going to start encouraging that. But then I got busy.
Show threadJeremiah MilbauerNov 12, 2022
@Riedl @jacobeisenstein @pfau since posts can’t really trend here, mastodon also incentivizes more discussion in the #PaperThread vs 🦤 if you want to keep it discoverable in #feeds
Show threadJacob EisensteinNov 12, 2022
@jerelev @Riedl @pfau Can you explain a bit more? Do posts about arXiv papers really "trend" on the other site? Or are you thinking of the feed algorithm?
Show threadJeremiah Milbauer
@jacobeisenstein @Riedl @pfau I don't use it much -- I meant the recommendation algorithm / feed, not the trending tab.
Nov 12, 2022 at 3:28amWeb
Show threadMark RiedlNov 12, 2022

@jerelev @jacobeisenstein @pfau

On the fediverse, we are the algorithm. Discovery is poor unless we boost things.

Show threadJacob EisensteinNov 12, 2022
@Riedl @jerelev @pfau I'm chronological on Twitter so I don't know how much The Feed is boosting paper threads. More organically, I'll see a paper several times if a lot of mutuals are commenting on it or retweeting. But all that can happen here too, right?
Show threadJeremiah MilbauerNov 12, 2022
@jacobeisenstein @Riedl @pfau Boosting, always. Commenting, it would depend on the visibility setting of the reply. For instance, these replies are "unlisted" so they're visible to all, but won't show up in feeds/search (I think)
Show threadDaniel LowdNov 12, 2022
@Riedl @pfau @jerelev @jacobeisenstein unlisted replies are shown to followers, but not in Local or Federated feeds.
Show threadJeremiah MilbauerNov 12, 2022
@lowd @Riedl @pfau @jacobeisenstein Also I think the app options might also be different from the web client ones. I saw this guide: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/posting/#privacy
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