@infO_Overlord@Mastodon.host @infO_Overlord@mastodon.host
Challenge: #informationOverload. Recruiting dedicated people to a #MOMOCzone #Qommunity where we learn tools & methods and curate quality content collaboratively. Also working on a new/alternative, functional concept of "Followers" in #socialMedia / #newsConsumption context, as the current, predominant way is both moot, misleading and counter-productive.
I'll be using the #F4IA hashtag when referring to #AI / #ArtificialIntelligence in my #informationOverload posts.
I invented that "acronym" as a "tongue-in-cheek" way of pointing out the #hype around so-called "#artificial" "#intelligence".
#F4IA stands for "Finally-Flexible-Features-For-Increased-Automation", which is what I think is at the heart of the current state of affairs for #AI.
This simply means that we now have good tools for automation.
There is nothing "intelligent" about it yet, not even in any artificial form. All of it is merely a new magnitude of "if-this-then-that" rules in a "crazy complex" system. But don't let the "crazy" lure you into believing that it might be "intelligent".
Maybe we can for the first time agree that finally some parts of our systems are indeed put together in a "smart" way. This may qualify for "smart technology", which in itself has been hyped in relation the (also) "so-called" "#smartphones", which is not even "smart" (yet) in the logical sense of that term".
Information #filtering is key in managing #informationOverload
We are facing a lot of information and using an increasing amount of #knowledge to manage projects, #challenges, problem resolving, etc. In more and more circumstances, it is also a question of "staying on top" of the latest development to ensure that decisions and solutions are based on the best possible insights in order to have maximum value and positive impact when moving forward.
To ensure you are aware of "everything relevant" before making a decision, we rely on search filtering automation tools, content recommendations, good tips from friends, colleagues and online resources, etc.
We have no choice but to apply #AI ("#ArtificialIntelligence") or as I call it; #F4IA ("Finally-Flexible-Features-For-Increased-Automation"...) to help us tackle this challenge.
However, the hype and naivity surrounding the current understanding of #AI also affects #F4IA.
It is crucial that the #algorithms are #transparent, open & #verifiable.
Does "follower(s)" / "following" make any practical sense anymore?
An account with less than 50% MORE followerS than it itself is followING, indicates that not significantly many finds what that account is posting or retweeting sufficiently interesting...
- An account that follows very many others, are at the same time clearly demonstrating that it does in fact attention-wise NOT FOLLOW many of them, as its own "home" page "stream" simply would be unmanageable (far too busy/fast).
Research indicate a practical "limitation" in that any person may not be able to take care of more than roughly 150 people in his/her network before time constraints are causing most of them to be (and feel) neglected.
Being young in this game, #Mastodon has the opportunity to redefine (or: refine) the scope of "followers", and introduce another dimension to handle those that are "beyond the active network" in a practical way.
Want a #TwitterKiller..?
#MastodonStrategy
#informationOverload
#development
#socialMedia
#efficiency
There is a need for a variety of #filtering options inside #Mastodon (and its various clients).
- search limited to own posts
- search within follower's posts
- search within users I follow's posts
- list of OWN posts using particular hashtag(s)
- list of posts by my followers using particular hashtag(s)
- list of posts by people I follow, using particular hashtag(s)
Maybe they can be added as a new column with their own "menu button"?
For reference: get inspired by how #Tweetdeck does this, and go beyond..!
Mastodon should at the very least not offer less such functionality than Tweetdeck (and the rest of its competitors on other platforms). (And not more complex to find and use either.)
#MastodonStrategy
#featureRequests
#clientFeatures
#deciSeconds
#efficiency
#filtering
#informationOverload
#socialMedia
Btw, our #TwitterKiller function of 500+ characters:
- Client software must STOP imposing a limit and use each instance's setting!
Hmmm. Really? (biased / skewed / misleading) Article:
"Most unhappy people are unhappy for the exact same reason"
- The #CONTENT (quality / #fakeNews) , (general media) #focus , political climate / atmosphere and global #perspective / outlook / #developments may also affect the (level of) #optimism of new #generations ...
#informationOverload
#society
#media
#socialMedia
#influence
#perspective
#QoL
"The money that #Stockholm University saves at the cancelled agreement with large science publisher #Elsevier will be used to publish research in full Open Access journals.
According to Stockholm University, the transition to #openscience is slow and the publishing in hybrid #journals, where you publish separate articles Open Access in an otherwise subscription-based journal, does not urge the development quickly enough."
@aral RSS is only relevant to blogs, and blogs aren't the Web. Blogs *ruined* the Web.
@aral Firefox still has the RSS feed button, it's just not in the default UI.
Also some (mostly commercial) sites do deliver tracking pixels linked from their RSS feeds, which kinda defeats the idea of not being tracked...
Some still publish their feeds through FeedBurner, providing usage information for the Google surveillance machine. Fat RSS feeds do create quite a bit of traffic on popular sites, as each client reloads the full file on each access... No real incremental updates...
sometimes I wish you could do a `git rebase` with toots.
After ranting a few minutes, and over a number of toots that others have replied to, go back and revise and combine into something coherent.
#TIL:
You can use the "Unlisted" toot privacy option to have a thread without spamming the timeline.
Make the first toot in a thread Public, and all replies to it unlisted. That way the timeline stays neat and you can chat all you want. Your followers will still see all your replies, though.
@Kensan @cynicalsecurity @stevelord Also remember that people are getting into extremely busy situations where they don't actually read papers in any depth any more.
@HalvarFlake that is "information overload" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_overload
@HalvarFlake yeah, i went from bookmarks, to open tabs, to Tomboy Notes, back to bookmarks again over 10 years of things of things i should read/understand/work on - so i feel you on this, and my list never got any smaller
One of the downsides of the information revolution is - I constantly feel like I can't keep up with all the things I should read / understand / work on.
The beautiful thing about logging interesting quotes and reserach as I go, is that in my wake I leave a sort of meta narrative. It acts like a scent trail I can re-follow. And like a good scent trail, I can take a shorter path through the narrative; the ideas that echo thru my head are necessarily compressed and cohesive vs the rambling path I used to map the territory.
"And so we cobble together these failed masks, with missing pieces, and try to smile through the holes."
"...information space is constantly changing. Our information world is changing much faster than that of our ancestors. In navigating this nauseating landscape, we need fixed points that do not exist. This points to a salubrious role for both bullshit and absurd conflict. Fighting about politics, sports, or religion, or believing in harmless bullshit like the persistence of personal identity or Newtonian mechanics, may play a major role in keeping us at home in reality."
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/10/01/meaning-and-pointing/
My take coming back to the fediverse. Things feel a lot like php forums back when I was 13.
Finding people with similar interests and mostly organizing around those interests.
Things aren't so huge that discovery still feels possible. I like this feeling. Just browsing the federated TL and finding someone to start following. I couldn't do that on the birdsite.
Just started exploring more instances and might play with having several accounts.
What is Mastodon? An animated video: https://youtu.be/IPSbNdBmWKE 🐘
Clarification: Relevant for all columns (Re: drowning in uninteresting toots) Show more
Is it possible to get around this #informationOverload problem with app features rather than waiting for core to change? (Re: drowning in uninteresting toots) Show more
Drowning in uninterested #Mastodon feed that makes me lose interest in visiting it often 
. Is there solution to smart filter our wall feed?
FYI: I have examplified the #ITstrategy #challenges and pros/cons of #multiAccount usage through a set of accounts both here + on the birdsite, from the #perspective of the ever-increasing #informationOverload . My approach..: Show more
@patdavid @garrett the use-case I'm imagining would be like a super-fan of a sports team, and an instance dedicated to that. So then it would be considered appropriate to post constantly about a given match while it was going on. But, if you were also into computers, those posts might not be appropriate in a different context.
Also, for something like the CEO of a company. So they'd have one account when speaking as a representative of the company and one when not.
@garrett I'm curious about that long term for Mastodon. Would I have one account for work, one for home? I have lots of e-mail addresses I use for different roles I play in life, perhaps that makes sense for social networking?
