Rather than limit opportunities for anons, because privacy is valuable in many ways, I would rather they have 2 different types of accounts: Official & Anon, and provide separate stats for each (i.e. Anon followers & official followers, Anon likes & Official likes, etc.).
Both can interact together, both are included in trends & algorithms, & both have the same or similar privileges, but you have the option to turn off your own viewing of one or the other. Self-curation (like Gab, I think) basically, but still free to post & reach those who want to hear.
This would help with limiting the troll farms or whatever anonymous fuckery for those who are annoyed by it or with getting a realistic experience while still making it accessible & producing more accurate stats. Artificially inflated popularity would show up as a significant difference between the two metrics.
I should cash in on my own idea, but alas. I didn't learn to code, lol. (Well, I do some, but not at a high level.)
yeah not bad. but there must be a way to detect source of thousands of accounts that never move all day because they are a chinese army sitting before computers.
I always have that turned off, anon or not, because I don't want to give Big Tech that benefit.
But that could be certainly added as another metric & curation switch, or added to private/public/collective stats. For example: "This user posted from xx." (if location is enabled for poster)/"See posts from xx." (If visibility is enabled for user.)
Maybe to do what you were saying, the above can be extrapolated to the following sort of metrics: "Last moved from this location at xx."/"See posts from users mobile within the last xx." Or "Poster makes xx average location changes per xx amount of time."/"See posts with xx average location changes per xx amount of time." Or "Poster's average radius is xx."/"See posts with an average location radius of xx." (Where a smaller radius = less movement).
Posts that never move, rarely change location, or have tiny radii, or even those that are repeated in (or scheduled to be repeated from) the same place over long periods of time before suddenly changing to locations that are geographically unrealistic (i.e. "Post from xx at 3:00 pm" followed by "Post from 10-miles-from-xx at 3:02 pm") could be flagged as bots or farms.
These metrics could be pretty simply collected by just grabbing location data associated with each individual post made, either via GPS location enabled, Cell-tower location enabled, Wifi-location via ISP enabled, or even manual input by the poster, like how it is already done, probably.
Who knows, maybe Big Tech already does keep these kinds of metrics on people, but doesn't make them available to users.
Rather than limit opportunities for anons, because privacy is valuable in many ways, I would rather they have 2 different types of accounts: Official & Anon, and provide separate stats for each (i.e. Anon followers & official followers, Anon likes & Official likes, etc.).
Both can interact together, both are included in trends & algorithms, & both have the same or similar privileges, but you have the option to turn off your own viewing of one or the other. Self-curation (like Gab, I think) basically, but still free to post & reach those who want to hear.
This would help with limiting the troll farms or whatever anonymous fuckery for those who are annoyed by it or with getting a realistic experience while still making it accessible & producing more accurate stats. Artificially inflated popularity would show up as a significant difference between the two metrics.
I should cash in on my own idea, but alas. I didn't learn to code, lol. (Well, I do some, but not at a high level.)
yeah not bad. but there must be a way to detect source of thousands of accounts that never move all day because they are a chinese army sitting before computers.
You mean using location?
I always have that turned off, anon or not, because I don't want to give Big Tech that benefit.
But that could be certainly added as another metric & curation switch, or added to private/public/collective stats. For example: "This user posted from xx." (if location is enabled for poster)/"See posts from xx." (If visibility is enabled for user.)
Maybe to do what you were saying, the above can be extrapolated to the following sort of metrics: "Last moved from this location at xx."/"See posts from users mobile within the last xx." Or "Poster makes xx average location changes per xx amount of time."/"See posts with xx average location changes per xx amount of time." Or "Poster's average radius is xx."/"See posts with an average location radius of xx." (Where a smaller radius = less movement).
Posts that never move, rarely change location, or have tiny radii, or even those that are repeated in (or scheduled to be repeated from) the same place over long periods of time before suddenly changing to locations that are geographically unrealistic (i.e. "Post from xx at 3:00 pm" followed by "Post from 10-miles-from-xx at 3:02 pm") could be flagged as bots or farms.
These metrics could be pretty simply collected by just grabbing location data associated with each individual post made, either via GPS location enabled, Cell-tower location enabled, Wifi-location via ISP enabled, or even manual input by the poster, like how it is already done, probably.
Who knows, maybe Big Tech already does keep these kinds of metrics on people, but doesn't make them available to users.
Its a lot harder than you think.
Reminds me of everyone in class putting their heads down, then the teacher asking kids to raise their hands if a question applies to them.