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Concordia University: New Concordia research shows social networks are vulnerable to relatively simple AI manipulation and polarization. “It seems that no matter the topic of conversation, online opinion around it will be split into two seemingly irreconcilable camps. That’s largely a result of these platforms’ design, as the algorithms driving them direct users to like-minded peers. This […]
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I'd like a feature (for Tusky) that shows me the fraction of posts (account's posts / all posts in my personal timeline) of each account I follow, for a specified timeframe, say last 1/3/6 months.
And ideally, there'd then be a feature to show a thinned out personal timeline that contains only toots of the more silent accounts (starting with the most silent) so that there's in total only x number of toots per week (say 70 or so).
I doubt that most people defending the "simple reverse chronological timeline" in #Mastodon, opposing #algorithmicTimelines, have any idea of how it currently works.
Because, having debugged that code and the SQL, I can confidently say that hardly anyone can understand the current algorithms.
There's thousands (inc. dependencies) lines of code and logic, generating very complex SQL queries to fill your seemingly simple reverse chronological timeline. Complex algos already fill your timeline.
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done differently This reminds me of the anecdotal evidence that number of 'followers' and 'likes' with large follower accounts sometimes don't equal actual eyeballs as there are also some streaming services that have large followers numbers in the millions but views only in the thousands, oddly. Hmm.
Twitter is a microphone connected to a mixer owned and controlled by Elon Musk.
If you understand how microphones and mixers work, you also understand why you can’t “stay and fight.”
Looking at the #analytics of the old 
site makes me sad to see the day that in less than two months the sale of #Twitter made the site completely useless and the move to #web3 accelerate beyond the #ToxicSocialMedaOnePointOh of #AlgorithmicTimelines driven by #Meta #Instagram #Snapchat #WhatsApp & #Twitter dying a horrible race to the bottom #ARPU #DAU #DAP driven #decline of #web1 & #web2 technologies. 
R.I.P. 
#AlgorithmicTimelines