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@gargron writes about #Eunomia, the #EU sponsored social credit project https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2020/08/why-eunomia-builds-on-mastodon/
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A cursory first read shows glossing over two big issues (probably more, but these two stood out): . 1--Algorithmic manipulation ... despite claims of good intentions, any time we defer timeline content selection to software, we're really saying that we trust the software's creators and operators to decide what we see or don't see. On many issues, there is no unified and settl…
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3--One of the things that is worst about Facebook and Twitter is that their algorithms decide what you see, not just your contacts / subscriptions list. Accepting a contact request or following someone is your affirmative choice to have that person's content in your feed, but they actively interfere with that. Sometimes for "engagement" raising (putting posts with extreme polit…
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https://adecentralizedworld.com/2020/06/a-trust-and-moderation-system-for-the-decentralized-web/ is someone else’s take on many of the same issues. I note that this article does not discuss “fake news” or other “this post does not accurately represent our accepted version of truth” situations, which is #Eunomia’s focus.