I appreciate the illustration (and even warning) here. I predict things like this will just lead to more people having throwaway accounts. Now instead of just having throwaway accounts for posting shameful stories, you’ll also find people with their “commenting” accounts separate from their “voting” accounts.
The more I see kbin users calling people out for downvoting them, the faster I expect the votes to just become gamed instead of natural. Anything that’s used to draw attention to the way people vote will make this worse.
We’re in the early stages, but as soon as we start seeing communities that ban users based on their voting records, people will just find other ways to obscure things, which will make it even harder for instance admins to address massive misuse of the voting system.
I think the biggest concern is getting all participating instances to agree on how to handle the issue.
We’ll start to see more fragmentation of the Fediverse as different instance owners have different views on what should be done. But many of the measures to fight this will only work if all participating instances do the same, whether actively, or by using a new version of the federation standard. Some instances may think the way is to be more transparent, while others may think the way is to obscure the votes more. Now you’ll have the “transparent” fediverse and the “obscure” fediverse with fundamental disagreements with each other on the way things work.
It’s interesting times ahead. Personally, I don’t think federation is the simple answer to all our social media woes like some folks around seem to think. There’s a lot that needs to be addressed, which will be uncovered as more companies like Meta try to get in on it.
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I appreciate the illustration (and even warning) here. I predict things like this will just lead to more people having throwaway accounts. Now instead of just having throwaway accounts for posting shameful stories, you’ll also find people with their “commenting” accounts separate from their “voting” accounts.
The more I see kbin users calling people out for downvoting them, the faster I expect the votes to just become gamed instead of natural. Anything that’s used to draw attention to the way people vote will make this worse.
We’re in the early stages, but as soon as we start seeing communities that ban users based on their voting records, people will just find other ways to obscure things, which will make it even harder for instance admins to address massive misuse of the voting system.
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I think the biggest concern is getting all participating instances to agree on how to handle the issue.
We’ll start to see more fragmentation of the Fediverse as different instance owners have different views on what should be done. But many of the measures to fight this will only work if all participating instances do the same, whether actively, or by using a new version of the federation standard. Some instances may think the way is to be more transparent, while others may think the way is to obscure the votes more. Now you’ll have the “transparent” fediverse and the “obscure” fediverse with fundamental disagreements with each other on the way things work.
It’s interesting times ahead. Personally, I don’t think federation is the simple answer to all our social media woes like some folks around seem to think. There’s a lot that needs to be addressed, which will be uncovered as more companies like Meta try to get in on it.