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  • It sounds like that would require unifying the architecture of all fediverse platforms, which nobody is interested in and very much goes against the point (decentralization). Right now all of these platforms are written independently, with unique architectures and different programming languages.

    Suffice to say that, while it’s a nice thought, what you’re proposing is not really realistic, nor is it actually desired.


  • Matrix is not part of the fediverse, so that’s kind of a special case and doesn’t work the same at all as the rest.

    What you describe sounds very simplified, but let me assure you that there is nothing simple about this problem (I say that as a software engineer that has studied ActivityPub, the protocol underlying the fediverse).


  • It feels like they could all be part of one unified platform.

    They are. It’s called the fediverse.

    There’s no reason why any of these software options couldn’t support all the same stuff, as you say. But so far they have chosen not to.

    Maybe another option will come along one day that supports more of it at once.


  • Let’s apply quality control on upvotes, so any post can get only 20 upvotes till it gets a specific amount of comments then the limit could be pumped up to 40 upvotes till it gets more comments, etc…

    Ultimately this is just limiting ways that people can vote. Voting is the democratic way to sort posts. I don’t think you can limit without ultimately influencing the system in unintended bad ways, since that will restrict how people can vote. Just let people vote.









  • What does that say about the sorting algorithms though? Should we sort posts based on votes then, or should we sort them based on something else? Do we want the posts at the top to be the ones the hivemind agrees most with and the ones the hivemind disagrees with should disappear at the bottom?

    Perhaps sorting should be based on total votes and not just downvotes? So downvoting is effectively still “voting” for it, just in a different way. I’m just spitballing here, I find the theory of sort/vote systems fascinating.