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@dev and I have a little disagreement about the greentext quoted top words. I think they get at the point of the tag in a humorous way that immediately announces what it is (quotes summarizing the essence). It's legitimately useful to be able to see "oh so... 1w ago (collapse hidden) retry 4 4

@dev and I have a li (view hidden) retry 4 4

We're liking it with grey preview style quoted words. Fits better with the style of index pages while still getting the point across. Will probably randomize the selection too. 1w ago (collapse hidden) retry 6 6

We're liking it with (view hidden) retry 6 6

Yeah i originally was going to use embeddings but all the off the shelf embeddings were confusing and huge, and i failed when i attempted to train one myself. I may revisit but i suspect this keyword system is going to be fine for our purposes. And the spa... 2w ago (collapse hidden) retry 6 6

Yeah i originally wa (view hidden) retry 6 6

It works! But slow as all hell. Right now we fully rebuild the "taste machine", which now includes this word frequency tagger, about once a minute. That used to do 50 iterations of the expectation-maximization algorithm we use to refine everyone's tastes, ... 2w ago (collapse hidden) retry 10 10

It works! But slow a (view hidden) retry 10 10

Can you say a bit more what you mean by “the original thread” and “not able to reply”? Sometimes long threads are closed to comments by new users but there may also be bugs. 3w ago (collapse hidden) retry 4 4

Can you say a bit mo (view hidden) retry 4 4

I also turned on “op must have an image” and increased reputation required to post a thread to a nonzero level. Happy to hear arguments either way on this but wanted to try out the slight taste and investment test to see how it affects posting. 3w ago (collapse hidden) retry 6 6 2 2

I also turned on “op (view hidden) retry 6 6 2 2

Ok I'll bite. Why shouldn't we add a side bar? Not that we have any plans for anything like that, but I have considered it in the past. The current design is driven by necessity and elegance. I don't forsee a need for sidebar type stuff, but I'd love to he... 3w ago (collapse hidden) retry 4 4

Ok I'll bite. Why sh (view hidden) retry 4 4

Wrong thread, but we're big fans of pink obviously, and radial symmetry is cool. It's an eclipse. I've heard all serious modern software companies need such a logo. 3w ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

Wrong thread, but we (view hidden) retry 5 5

How are you guys liking the new pronounceable nyms? It's feeling a lot more comfy IMO. A bit goofy but they just work. Curious for feedback. 3w ago (collapse hidden) retry 6 6

How are you guys lik (view hidden) retry 6 6

Yeah it happens. I wish I had a better solution for you. It's been working reliably for most people afaik, and email is tough to get over those final reliability hurdles. Right now we're just using nearlyfreespeech as the provider, but we'll probably have ... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

Yeah it happens. I w (view hidden) retry 3 3

what's the value of a shoutbox and would that work for us? Is that just a live chat feed for low-stakes chat comments? I have always found such things to be awkward and gimmicky and have never used them. I think the best platforms have their attentional fo... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

what's the value of (view hidden) retry 3 3

fwiw, things actually don't fall off the board right now. They fall of the front page. Dig around in the tags and necrobump your favorite finds. I thought about the stuff you said and I'm sympathetic, so I tried a few different solutions and currently have... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

fwiw, things actuall (view hidden) retry 3 3

The RSS feed was a different anon who may or may not still be reading/around. We’ve had it for at least 6 months but i never announced it i guess. I dont really get RSS so im not even sure it still works.... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 4 4

The RSS feed was a d (view hidden) retry 4 4

I guess we're going to have to build our own newsletter at some point here. Basically there should be an option on the account page to add an email subscription that notifies you of new posts, or best posts weekly, or something like that. Also DMs. When we... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 6 6

I guess we're going (view hidden) retry 6 6

For what it's worth, "best rated" posts already includes a term for "most discussion from different people" (basically we count unique posters per thread weighted by their reputation), though perhaps we could improve that by putting more weight on it and a... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 8 8

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Fyi theres no notifications yet so you might miss that you matched or got a dm. Check the “you” page to see dms. 2mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

Fyi theres no notifi (view hidden) retry 3 3

I've already matched with a few people (under multiple names even). Or at least I think it's a few people. Maybe it's just one of you. No way to know. This is fun! I find myself expecting a lot of great content to be posted to the private channels, and opt... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 7 7

I've already matched (view hidden) retry 7 7

Yeah its a bit awkward still. “Follow” is probably the wrong concept, the UI needs an overhaul, and i’m going to add other features that clarify things and reduce need to run around “following” people (eg manual dm requests). Anonymous social net... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

Yeah its a bit awkwa (view hidden) retry 5 5

Yes the current implementation of the “eigencommunity” of good posters is closely related to pagerank: your authority as a voter is a function of how much value (positive and negative) you have produced, with value being the revealed opinion (votes and... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 7 7

Yes the current impl (view hidden) retry 7 7

Also, i’m not going to hellban/heavenban everybody. Besides being rather more expensive (several orders of magnitude, naively) than computing a single canonical community perspective, the difference between different possible authorities is not as large ... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 6 6

Also, i’m not going (view hidden) retry 6 6

Well as you noticed yourself, tags are naturally closely related to “simcluster” feeds. Whats the difference between a named feed and a tag page? I think what you’re proposing with respect to the current tag scheme is that users should should perhaps... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

Well as you noticed (view hidden) retry 5 5

Yes I've been thinking this. I don't think you even need an LLM. Good old fashioned bag-of-words document embeddings would probably work fine (and be lots more efficient). But also, the tags are going to be populated and maintained by human posters, and th... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 7 7

Yes I've been thinki (view hidden) retry 7 7

that's a cool idea. You can post your blog on your own page, but all discussion is inherently public. With likes you're basically going back to the older twitter model of non-algorithmic retweet-like-curation, if I understand correctly. So if I understand,... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

that's a cool idea. (view hidden) retry 5 5

Very cool, guys. Let a thousand alt social media flowers bloom. I look forward to seeing your respective attempts. I hope you’ll still want to come visit us here. 3mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 6 6

Very cool, guys. Let (view hidden) retry 6 6

yeah good ideas on how to use the nym feature. I look forward to seeing what you guys come up with. Some of it might end up having to be nerfed but for now go wild.... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 8 8

yeah good ideas on h (view hidden) retry 8 8

cool i switched my nym color to pink from that ugly green I had at the cost of revealing myself as admin on one non-admin post that had the good color. Thanks for the idea. I don't think there's any downside to allowing this...... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

cool i switched my n (view hidden) retry 3 3

that there is a BUG. On it. 3mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

that there is a BUG. (view hidden) retry 5 5

Fixed the zero bug. De-naming yourself should work properly now. 3mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

Fixed the zero bug. (view hidden) retry 3 3

I don't mean to send a strong signal against namefagging. I built the feature so you could namefag. It was just some mild bullying over the particular choice of name.... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 7 7

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I had a good discussion with someone about this earlier today and came to this thought: we should have something like an option to be open to other people requesting follow-back (and thus an open channel of communication). So I follow you and send the requ... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 7 7

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Thinking further, there seems to be a tricky combinatorial problem in the match algorithm. What if I like many of your nyms, and then you like one of mine? Which ones match? What if you then like another?... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

Thinking further, th (view hidden) retry 5 5

That requires specifying which nym is doing the following in each case, and reduces probability of match drastically. Match takes two user-to-nym follows and produces a nym-to-nym match. One such match can be produced without any complication. It's what to... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 4 4

That requires specif (view hidden) retry 4 4

Interesting points anon. Maybe we don't need any such concept as matching, given dm requests. Maybe it's too tpot. I will think on that. But first, I must present the solution to the matching problem assuming we want matches:... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

Interesting points a (view hidden) retry 5 5

Well I got it working on the backend. It finds matches. But we don't have the code yet to actually support notifications or private threads. Nor have I built the manual matching mechanism. This is all going to be monstrously complex. Several hundred lines ... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

Well I got it workin (view hidden) retry 5 5

We're going to do a dumb nym-to-nym dm system to cover the cases where there is a clear intention from the users. But also, it will occasionally hit you with something like "nym abc (you) and anon xyz follow each other. You can DM here". The algorithm is a... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 6 6

We're going to do a (view hidden) retry 6 6

Yeah I'm getting more excited by the matching aspect the more I think about it. As for algorithmic inequality, I don't think I believe that the value of an anonymous board is equality per se. It's rather that you are insulated from third party censure. No ... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

Yeah I'm getting mor (view hidden) retry 5 5

To be clear, most of the algorithm is already and still what you are calling "rapport". That is of course the backbone of anonymous reputation. But let's talk about an anonymous "mute". What could that mean? We could make it so that you literally just neve... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

To be clear, most of (view hidden) retry 5 5

Yeah thats the idea. I just deleted the twitter app because its so overrun with retarded shill bots. I want a social network, even a small one, where we can be quite sure that we are all free men, and not robots or shills. We need some density of good vouc... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

Yeah thats the idea. (view hidden) retry 3 3

Just pushed up the first functionality of the follow/mute UI. It doesn't do much yet, just impacts the reputation of the person you're following a bit. Coming soon is the part where we reveal threads with people you follow, and match you with mutuals for d... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

Just pushed up the f (view hidden) retry 3 3

Added the "you" page for collecting all account-related functionality. It's replaced logout in the header, and that's where logout has moved. It also lists your persistent (named) nyms. I'm not listing all anon nyms because any serious poster will have doz... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

Added the "you" page (view hidden) retry 3 3

Fixed a major multi-hour outage caused by a logfile permissions mishap. Whoops.... 6mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 8 8

Fixed a major multi- (view hidden) retry 8 8

New taste machine version (the part of the system that determines who has how much authority, and how valuable or offensive posts are considered to be). You will see that the value indicator numbers are now integers counting "votes". It's not quite as simp... 5mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 7 7

New taste machine ve (view hidden) retry 7 7

Major outage today as I had a subtle concurrency bug that blew up the whole system because of lack of defensive coding somewhere else. Details not that interesting: basically syncing the taste machine wasn't threadsafe but the webserver is multithreaded so... 5mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

Major outage today a (view hidden) retry 5 5

Added a "profile page" feature where you can click on a nym and see everything they have posted (under that name) in one place. Right now this is pretty useless because nyms are unique to threads, but as we add ways to interact with nyms (dm, vouch) and ad... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

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You can now name your nyms. If you give two nyms the same name, they will be merged. See how I am now "admin". When posting new threads, you can either use a fresh anon (as previously) or one of your names. As always, you can at any time for any post spin ... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 6 6

You can now name you (view hidden) retry 6 6

If i vouch for both your nyms, the system assumes those are independent signals, so they both count. But there’s a limit to how much we can count even very large numbers of vouches, with strong diminishing returns. I’ll adjust if people start gaming it... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

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Some changes to layout last night. You'll see a unified title block at the top of all pages, tags a little less intrusive, a few other minor changes. Additionally, we can now (on the backend at least) change the name of tags. I've switched them from 4chan ... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

Some changes to layo (view hidden) retry 3 3

That is precisely the plan. In fact it is basically already the case. There are only a few minor things left for full integration of the tag system into the advisory voting taste machine. Basically all of you have enough signal to more or less unilaterally... 6mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

That is precisely th (view hidden) retry 5 5

Yeah basically this is what i was getting at when saying tags should index content that otherwise isn’t well indexed. The corollary is that it doesnt count towards that tag’s utility if it is duplicative. The vector embedding idea is interesting. We’... 6mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

Yeah basically this (view hidden) retry 3 3

Its very important IMO that users be able to define their own “feed” and reason about it. A problem with current social media is that the feed algos are opaque, not something you can reason about and discuss. I want to solve this with the tag system fi... 6mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

Its very important I (view hidden) retry 5 5

Yeah maybe when you tag something it should appear under that tag for you, with the community default following from the consensus on that.... 6mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 4 4

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I don't see the connection. Tags are for organizing the index of threads so we can have multiple conversations going on at once. The thread length limit is so that threads don't get too long to read and navigate. The thread limit might be a bit busted righ... 6mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

I don't see the conn (view hidden) retry 3 3

Yes, more or less. If a group of posters are only liked by each other, but others don't like them, they will all lose authority eventually to the point of even losing posting privilege. There may be additional vulnerabilities, but I won't speculate for obv... 1y ago (collapse hidden) retry 6 6

Yes, more or less. I (view hidden) retry 6 6

Good post anon. Updooted 1y ago (collapse hidden) retry 6 6 1 1

Good post anon. Updo (view hidden) retry 6 6 1 1

All in good time gentlemen.... 1y ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

All in good time gen (view hidden) retry 5 5

you can always bully them anonymously, and are never stuck with nameposting... 1y ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

you can always bully (view hidden) retry 3 3

welcome. don't let the flame go out. 1y ago (collapse hidden) retry 7 7

welcome. don't let t (view hidden) retry 7 7

Nope. The only difference between "Anonymous" vs "Numbered" is whether your posts are visibly associated with each other in the thread. It's just to make discussion easier between anons, while also allowing you to dodge association with your own posts if y... 13mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

Nope. The only diffe (view hidden) retry 5 5