Ancestors

Written by Atemu on 2025-01-23 at 21:44

I used to think that the fact that you don't see everything ever posted in the #Fediverse is a bug that we need to figure out a solution to.

These days, I think of it as a feature.

You generally really don't want to see everything that's going on in the world; that's way too much and no human can realistically keep up.

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Written by Atemu on 2025-01-23 at 21:44

Having one large global "heap" of postings (as is the case in centralised services) necessarily requires automated filtering and ranking at this scale because it cannot be managed by humans. We've seen time and time again how such systems utterly fail at fostering healthy communication.

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Written by Atemu on 2025-01-23 at 21:44

While I still have high regards for #reddit / #lemmy-style ordering based on votes and recency, the #boost model of #Mastodon is really quite great at fostering human socialising in a federated manner.

Having people press a simple button to express "I would have posted this too" is a really good filter for things that are actually meaningful in some way. Those are the messages that should reach further in the world.

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Written by Atemu on 2025-01-23 at 21:45

There are limited scopes where I think we need to have a very global heap such as replies in threads where it is extremely confusing to only see a subset.

Account overviews too should at least be able to fetch all posts available on the home instance (without retroactively adding those to timelines).

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Written by Atemu on 2025-01-23 at 21:45

Additionally, we need #fediverse-wide indices. If I need to research something, I do usually want to find something that is new to me and hasn't made its way to my corner of the world yet.

In contrast to feeds, it's on me to filter the results of my research to find what I'm looking for here, so inhuman ranking algorithms based on sensible objective metrics are acceptable.

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