The thing about blocking WaPo and NYT because their opinion sections are just monetized trolling is that you also notice just how often people retweet their actual news content.
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Replying to @generativist
Crowdsourced tagging would fix the internet. Is anybody doing this?
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Replying to @cowtung
tagging in whcih way?
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Replying to @generativist
My vision for the future of the internet is a browser plugin which adds a meta layer over the internet. You subscribe to tagging coalitions who help you filter and collate everything on the internet and pay by contributing or micropayments.
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Replying to @cowtung
Oh yea. Literally that's one of the ideas I've been playing with, and I've seen many other try. Also, check out ActivityPub, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub …
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Replying to @generativist
ActivityPub doesn't seem to be what I'm talking about. Is there a browser plugin anywhere which shows meta-data on tweets, flags bots etc.? Is your thing usable? Where can I grab it?
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Replying to @cowtung
I'll try to compile a list of those approaches in a post sometime soon. The thing I keep toying with but then thinking I shouldn't because twitter wouldn't like it is just a computational immune system for twitter.
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Replying to @generativist
"Twitter wouldn't like it" is a perfect reason to do something, IMO.
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Replying to @cowtung
Hah. Yes. But, I want to have my backup project in place in case they don't and just shut it down.
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Replying to @generativist
What mechanism would Twitter use to shut you down? What if it were a browser plugin that was invisible to Twitter?
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imo routing around the api tends to be fragile.
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