See where you rank on influential25's live nomination board — not against the whole network, just your own moots (mutual follows). Then turn your top-ranked moots into a real starter pack.
Ranking Strategies on Farcaster | OpenRank
Profile reputation scoring to address trustworthiness in social networks
mootrace — who replied to whom first
A grid of a handle's mutuals — every pairing shows who replied to the other first.
Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution (2015) | Hacker News
Any marginally successful group attracts sociopaths. The more power available to someone installing themselves at the centre of an elite clique that runs the organisation, the more attractive it is. No-one ever sees it fully until they get on the wrong end of one of these toxic power dynamics, there is so much subtle BS working against anyone trying to face this stuff down that it's almost pointless wasting your life trying.
As election looms, a network of mysterious ‘pink slime’ local news outlets nearly triples in size
Editor’s Note: This is the second of our four pieces on this network. In December 2019, we first established the scope of the “pink slime” network distributing algorithmic stories and conservative talking points. In October 2021, we found that the network had received funding from multiple dark money groups as well as collaborated with advocacy […]
Polls For ActivityPub
Fediverse compatible polls. The development of this plugin was funded by the NGI0 Core Fund, a fund established by NLnet.
Hundreds of ‘pink slime’ local news outlets are distributing algorithmic stories and conservative talking points
<p>Editor’s Note: This is the first of our four pieces on this network. In August 2020, we found that the size of the network had nearly tripled to over 1200 sites. In October 2021, we found that the network had received funding from multiple dark money groups as well as collaborated with advocacy groups on topics to […]</p>
Influence without authority — Gabriel Valdivia
Some of the most influential designers I’ve worked with had no direct reports. They didn't spend their days assigning work, running performance reviews, or deciding who got promoted. Yet they could change the direction of a project, raise the quality bar of a team, and sometimes change the strategy for the entire company. Individual contributors can develop influence by giving people reasons to trust their judgment, then finding ways for that judgment to travel beyond the things they personally make.
Gaming Consensus: Coordinated Manipulation in Crowdsourced Fact-Checking
In this work, we develop the first rigorous analysis of the resistance of the core matrix factorization component of Community Notes to coordinated manipulation. Bridging-based algorithms (Ovadya & Thorburn, 2023; Small et al., 2021) offer some inherent resistance to manipulation: unlike traditional voting systems where adversaries can fabricate volume through fake upvotes, bridging requires diverse agreement across users with opposing viewpoints. Forging bridging consensus is harder as it requires an understanding of users and rating patterns on the platform. However, we demonstrate that it is possible to create synthetic consensus through a carefully designed voting strategy. Our approach does not rely on exploiting any software/security vulnerability or implementation bug, instead leveraging a fundamental property of the system’s core matrix factorization algorithm.
#protocolsforpublishers #atproto #mcp #webapplets | Chad Kohalyk
Web publishing is facing its next challenge: a new iteration of centralizing platforms. BUT there is also a new wave of open protocols and standards that can help us gain our independence. Next month in NYC we are gathering a group of frontier technologists and popular web publishers to discuss how we can sail into this next platform shift as captains. #ProtocolsForPublishers Learn more and sign up here: https://pfp.unternet.co We will be hosting talks on #atproto #mcp #webapplets and web payments, and give publishers the opportunity to interact directly with developers working on these frontier technologies. Thank you to Unternet, Graze Social, Free our Feeds, and betaworks for their support.
How Popular YouTubers Pushed Young Male Voters Toward Trump
How podcasters like Joe Rogan and Logan Paul turned young men, a once apolitical demographic, into a massively powerful voting bloc,
MbinOrg/mbin
Mbin: a federated content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform
Who else is using @roost.tools’ Osprey for moderation on ATProto? Would there be interest in some sort of shared repo for UDFs and Plugins?
The ATProto community built a ton of great features and products over the past year. For our next trick, let's mature them into products and businesses.
Mosh Lee
(2/n) A feature solves one problem well — even delightfully well. But features get copied easily or absorbed into larger products. They have no distribution or adoption model. If your whole thing can become a pane in someone else's app, it's a feature.
Community Contribution Badges
Research for communities that want to use atproto for community contribution - for badges and other highlights. Special focus on exploring non-code contributions.
Astro Badges
