Yeah some degree of sorting is necessary when there’s a lot of content, but there might still be another way. Following people, tags, and communities and allowing people to sort things themselves I think might be a better system. I know some people will be obsessed with follower count, but that doesn’t need to be a metric that is actually tracked and shown. I guess at some point it stops being lemmy/piefed, but I do think that we should be thinking about these kinds of things.
The truth ofc is that any system can be abused but that’s partially a culture problem too, and different systems will encourage and incentivize different behaviors.
Yeah some degree of sorting is necessary when there’s a lot of content, but there might still be another way. Following people, tags, and communities and allowing people to sort things themselves I think might be a better system. I know some people will be obsessed with follower count, but that doesn’t need to be a metric that is actually tracked and shown. I guess at some point it stops being lemmy/piefed, but I do think that we should be thinking about these kinds of things.
The truth ofc is that any system can be abused but that’s partially a culture problem too, and different systems will encourage and incentivize different behaviors.
But following people might easily be done by bots. You’d need to make the system as botproof as possible…
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What’s the problem with bots following people if follower count is neither visible nor used for sorting?