[re: Tweet re: Quilette's self-congrat. tone]: Agree; but that's just how journalism works. The craft demands every bauble dangled before the reader be portrayed as a crown jewel of relevance, and the writer lauded as a pearl-diver who near-drowned in a sea of muck to surface it.
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Replying to @PereGrimmer
These tone issues draw the observer to realize that there are just too many things being written about that don’t deserve attention. We’ve eroded the value of information by over-supplying the network with irrelevant signals disguised as meaningful information.
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Replying to @JordanTSack
Fully agree. That is why I wish there were a distributed, market based system to sort news on relevance at the micro (story for story or even fact for fact) level. I am optimistic we will get to a better place, but who knows when.
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Replying to @PereGrimmer @JordanTSack
Maybe a platform should sample many users’ assignment of relevance based on their own self-assigned preferences and interests and then the most popular signals will naturally propagate to wider populations.
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Isn’t this twitter rn lol
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