Alex StamosThe speedrun through "every trust and safety problem others have experienced over the last decade but that I don't know anything about" continues.
Up next, adversarial reporting.
Sophie Zhang (张学菲)@alex Probably a feature for him, not a bug. To really affect the algorithm you'd need a lot of accounts, and that's revenue for him. If adversarial reporting turns into a war, the only arms merchant profits.
@szhang_ds True, if you throw away every metric other than "how much were the libs owned?" then a lot of pathologies other companies wrestled with become features.
I'm wondering how much these days there's a business argument for essentially being biased as a social media owner.
In that no matter what, large-network social media moderation tends to result in criticism - regardless of fairness, transparency efforts, etc. If you're visibly biased, you effectively negate most complaints from half of the users, at the cost of strongly alienating the other half.
S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸@szhang_ds @alex but the alt right trolls have been bored at Truth Social and they will get bored at Eloy Club. They only like to stalk and fight. He is taking away their prey. This is a death spiral.
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