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Interesting. Does it make sense to entirely remove the "Follow" button with a design like this? Or does it still serve a purpose on platforms designed for specialization?

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 23 Apr \ parent \ on: Gaining and Losing Trust AskSN

I unfollowed everyone on Twitter a while ago.

The 'For You' algorithm already does a decent job of filtering content for me, and whenever I feel like I've consumed too much social media, I just switch from 'For You' to 'Following', and my entire timeline is blank.

40 sats \ 2 replies \ @kr OP 23 Apr \ parent \ on: Gaining and Losing Trust AskSN

Yeah it's a weird dynamic. Every now and then you come across some celebrity who totally implodes and it seems like their follower count doesn't dramatically drop (even though their reputation might).

I guess it might be related to the idea of "there's no such thing as bad press".

29 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 23 Apr \ parent \ on: Gaining and Losing Trust AskSN

Building on the Stacker News core premise, perhaps following shouldn't be free. And, further, perhaps following additional people should be increasingly expensive. That at least provides incentive to be conscientious about who you're following.

I like your train of thought here

31 sats \ 2 replies \ @kr OP 23 Apr \ parent \ on: Gaining and Losing Trust AskSN

How would you try to change this?

Good question, I've been thinking about it all evening and don't have a great idea yet.

I wonder if flipping this switch might help a startup social platform to take on larger players...

One crude way to make social media look a little more like the real world is if the "follow" button required you to click it on multiple posts over multiple days for it to work. Meanwhile the unfollow button would remain a one-click button.

Not a good UX, but you get where I'm going with it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 23 Apr \ parent \ on: Gaining and Losing Trust AskSN

That's wild. I've never seen anyone experience a drop like that from being "canceled" or any other viral faux pas, but I can see how a bot-detection algorithm might do that.

Gaining and Losing Trust

761 sats \ 19 comments \ @kr 22 Apr AskSN

The American Persimmon poorprolesalmanac.substack.com/p/the-american-persimmon

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This Bed Frame Never Squeaks

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr OP 21 Apr \ parent \ on: What Do Bunnies Have To Do With Easter? AskSN

interesting. not sure if there’s a seasonality thing too. I went on a run today and for the first time this year, I saw a bunny.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 21 Apr \ parent \ on: What Do Bunnies Have To Do With Easter? AskSN

Canada too, but we inherit many things from America

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @kr OP 20 Apr \ parent \ on: What Do Bunnies Have To Do With Easter? AskSN

Got it, so eggs and rabbits are separate things, but Cadbury tried to pull a fast one on us and combine them? The mini eggs do taste good, I'll give them that.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 20 Apr \ parent \ on: What Do Bunnies Have To Do With Easter? AskSN

Makes sense.

What Do Bunnies Have To Do With Easter?

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302 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 20 Apr \ on: Eric Schmidt: "Vast Majority Of Programmers Will Be Replaced With AI In A Year" devs

Elon has made similar predictions about driverless cars for 11-12 years now, and the lesson I've learned in watching these predictions unfold is that the edge cases are really hard.

I wonder if the same thing happens with programming. It's easy for AI to generate standard templates using well understood languages, but how do you effectively prompt it to build something new?

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 20 Apr \ parent \ on: Growing Broccoli Sprouts (Part 3) food_and_drinks

It's a Sprouts Jar from a company called Forages