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ncitron.eth
@ncitron.eth
Everyone who was complaining about the auto follow list who is now complaining about it being removed has outed themselves as really just being mad that they themselves weren't on the auto follow list.
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christin
@christin
I’m not sure about this? I think people are pointing out that there is still a network growth advantage for accounts that are now larger, which isn’t overtly compensated in the new system in gaming terms it’s like some players were OP and now they are nerfed but they still have exp gains anyway however I want to add that there are many “lower” following count people who have actual larger influence than “higher” follower counts thru the virtue of their quality casts and community work the “fairest” thing to do might be to remove total follower counts from profile view, and surface other metrics instead (recent engagements? mutual friend follows?) that infer relevancy rather than popularity (disclosure: I was on the auto follow list)
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ncitron.eth
@ncitron.eth
I think this reaffirms my point. There is a resurgence of people pointing out the unfairness of the auto follow list now that it has been dropped. I think a lot of people (and I admit I was one of them) were secretly hoping that they would end up on the list, and now those aspirations are crushed and they will have to climb the popularity rankings the hard way. Totally agree on the following count not necessarily being a good metric, as plenty of people who were never on the list have equivalent or greater numbers of "quality followers" compared to their faristrocratic counterparts. Also as a side note, I think the auto follow list was broadly a good thing because it was easy to implement and worked well. It may not have been the fairest mechanism but the goal is to bootstrap a quality feed so that people have a good experience with the product rather than to produce the most egalitarian system. I hope the new algorithmic starting feed will be just as high quality and a little more fair.
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shazow
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^ Exactly this. I don't know what the correct/fair move is, but it feels dishonest to not even acknowledge it. I was hoping for a "yea it's not ideal, we messed up but we don't have great ideas for how to correct it retroactively so at least we'll stop it for now and figure out better experiments in the future."
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