RE: https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352522288234148
shameful junk
this is commercial UX posturing 101 that amounts to the complaint that generative AI positivity does not get engagement on mastodon.
"community", "inclusivity", "bring more voices", "marginalised communities"
the problem?
Mastodon lacks an algorithmic feed that boosts AI positivity posts
"The Mastodon team is finally getting some traction" is an important phrase to consider.
Mastodon has traction. It is an internet cockroach that will out last any other current social network.
But that kind of traction is not recognised in this context because this is not a good faith post made by a serious person
Claiming the argument is not made in good faith by a serious person seems to miss the mark pretty badly. Scott Jenson does not match this description, and we should do better.
Similarly, @carnage4life does not appear to be some huge AI evangelist. [Edit: It seems I'm probably wrong here]
To me the story here is that Mastodon gives less voice to central nodes in the network, instead distributing the conversation. That may indeed be bad for journalists, but maybe good for us.
@fasterandworse
@sab @fasterandworse
> That is indeed bad for journalists, but maybe good for us.
anecdotally, this doesn't match my observations at all. there's a number of journalists in the fedi that post here _intentionally_, and they have *extremely* good engagement and following. their output frequently reverbs through various wings of the fedi (you can see this propagate by day)
there's a separate argument about discoverability, but it is a distinctly different problem
also: lol @ wrong about Dare
Yeah, I was running out of characters to express my point properly there. It's clearly bad for influencers and those who thrive on algorithmic social media, including a lot of what journalism has become. I think it's good for good investigative journalists who don't post a lot, but who produce quality content when they do.
I think it's more fair to say that algorithmic social media has been bad for journalism, but those who thrived there will have to reinvent here.
@froztbyte @fasterandworse
@sab @fasterandworse ye, I getcha
the fedi isn't perfect (and the jank is a feature), but there's certainly some stuff we definitely can do better once we figure out how
the nice thing is that I think it is _likely_ to get figured out here, even tho I dunno when that might be
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