Victor ZhongDec 17, 2022
I do think there needs to be some sort of recommendation algorithm to make Mastodon feeds scalable. For example this Jack Dorsey thread describing a platform for content (eg Mastodon) upon which users can choose to run their own ranking algorithms: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/jackjack/issues/a-native-internet-protocol-for-social-media-1503112. I’m already starting to find my feed a bit unwieldy, and I don’t even have that many followed accounts..
a native internet protocol for social media

There’s a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles. Here’s my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified. I’ll start with the principles I’ve come to believe…based on everything I’ve learned and experienced through my past actions as a Twitter co-founder and lead:Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.Only the original author may remove content they produce.Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.The Twitter when I led it and the Twitter …

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In fact I think perhaps this is a viable business model? Company A serves as a platform for social media and user content. It sells access to that content to other companies B that curate content personalized to end users. A is paid by B while B makes money off of ads or subscription fees.
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Show threadToni KukurinDec 17, 2022
@v The way things are going, seems Company B could likely be some version of LLM provider (Cohere/OpenAI/...) with an "API glue layer" to Company A.