Susam Pal’s commentary on "attention media" displacing #social-networks, including in the designs of things like #ActivityPub (the #Mastodon protocol). “...when I log into the ruins of those older platforms now, all I see are random videos presented to me for reasons I can neither infer nor care about. Mastodon, by contrast, still feels like social networking in the original sense. I follow a small number of people I genuinely find interesting and I receive their updates and only their updates. What I see is the result of my own choices rather than a system trying to capture and monetise my attention.”
on 02026-03-04an article about Scuttlebutt and other #decentralization of #social-networks #toread
on 02017-05-19Discussion thread on #decentralization of #social-networks
on 02017-05-19a formal language for #reputation-systems for #social-networks. “Anyone can make statements in dewDrop, and anyone can aggregate those statements to reach conclusions using all the knowledge of their social graph. Only the people you trust - directly or transitively - will have their statements weighted when you build conclusions.”
on 02016-09-23