2026-05-11 02:55 UTC
@ozoned for all that my last couple of years of education have involved some training-wheel level Data Science and Research Methods class work, I’m not sure this is a thing anyone has worked out. I feel like it COULD be done and I can imagine the shape of it, but it would involve rethinking what we consider a metric at a very fundamental level.
With social “media”, the subject of all the metrics we have is NOT the person … it’s the product, the individual units of “content”.
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@johannab@cosocial.ca 2026-05-11 03:04
@ozoned An “influencer” is not a person, and not an account. It’s an aggregation of discrete content items, valued by a rolling statistical window of the most recent ratings of those items, as delivered by an audience. And there’s really a horrid behavioural feedback loop to that, and one I think many of us here wanted to escape. So we can’t measure things in the same way AT ALL, unless we just want to replicate what we are here to avoid.
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@ozoned@btfree.social 2026-05-11 03:02
@johannab@cosocial.ca exactly! We're measuring ourselves wrong. MAU is a meaningless statistics, when my site will probably only ever get me. But I'm still a piece of the conversation to Mastodon.social though I am NEVER one of their monthly active users.