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oligopsony) wrote2018-12-29 08:15 am
oligopsony) wrote2018-12-29 08:15 am
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a quick sketch for a social network
This is just a thought experiment, with no consideration as to e.g. feasibility.
Imagine your usual setup, where you can subscribe to people and tags, and you can post whatever and re share them (dependent on restrictions set by the originator.) You can like things, &c.
The gimmick is that the site updates only once a day.
If you go into Recent View, you'll see everything posted during the last update window in a random order, with multiple reblogs of the same thing treated as one item (unless you've seen that exact version before, in which case you'll skip it; or people are adding modifications/comments, in which case they'll appear together.)
You can also read Archive View. The amount of likes something gets can impact what order you read Archive View of a user or tag, but you can't like from there. I don't know whether you should be able to reblog from there or how posts should be aggregated together - most of the obvious ways of answering that seem to be degenerate in some way - but the goal would be something that doesn't produce perverse incentives or let things compound on themselves.
Imagine your usual setup, where you can subscribe to people and tags, and you can post whatever and re share them (dependent on restrictions set by the originator.) You can like things, &c.
The gimmick is that the site updates only once a day.
If you go into Recent View, you'll see everything posted during the last update window in a random order, with multiple reblogs of the same thing treated as one item (unless you've seen that exact version before, in which case you'll skip it; or people are adding modifications/comments, in which case they'll appear together.)
You can also read Archive View. The amount of likes something gets can impact what order you read Archive View of a user or tag, but you can't like from there. I don't know whether you should be able to reblog from there or how posts should be aggregated together - most of the obvious ways of answering that seem to be degenerate in some way - but the goal would be something that doesn't produce perverse incentives or let things compound on themselves.