2026-05-11 03:04 UTC
@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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@johannab@cosocial.ca 2026-05-11 03:08
@ozoned I think what we need is a serious systems design researcher, someone who can dig up and understand the fundamentals of network theory and of the architectures we once explored but have abandoned, or are slowly and haphazardly reinventing by bumbling around trying to define what we’re not. That also has to be someone who understood the world before Canter & Siegel ever happened, because that decision to intrude on everyone’s networking for personal profit set this up.