Nathan TeBlunthuis

Huge thanks to everyone who is supported me on my academic journey. Most of all: @mako and @aaronshaw and @communitydata, and also Ceren Budak , David MacDonald, and Kirsten Foot as well as all my collaborators over the years.

@taylorbeauvais@dair-community.social Yeah, so a lot of the known challenges with moderation and information quality seem easier when growth, engagement, and ad revenue aren't design goals, but these were the goals of the social media environments we are accustomed to. Communities on different platforms with different goals are likely to face different versions of governance problems. For example, social movement organizations, Wikipedia, and open source projects all govern speech, quality, and conflict.

@randomwalker@mastodon.social Possible collective goals could be building the visibility and reputation of community members, disseminating important ideas, coordinating and mobilizing a social movement, hanging out and messing around. These goals don't have to be compatible, but we need to design algorithms and feeds to serve some such goals.

@randomwalker@mastodon.social One challenge will be shifting how we imagine the relationship between the platform/instance and the user. Agendas for the design and mgmt of commercial platforms serve business strategies. Users are used to acquiescing to these agendas. Open source social media communities will have to settle on new agendas and goals and this is likely to be a messy process, because discussions often revolve around individual tastes and preferences and not collective goals.

I'm also attending @IC2S2 to present "Misclassification in Automated Content Analysis Causes Bias in Regression. Can We Fix It? Yes We Can!" https://social.coop/@groceryheist/110710278645829456

@Kudusch Thank you!

@taylorbeauvais@dair-community.social Do you mind elaborating on why you think "sorting and organizing misinfo if a model goal is a healthy community." ?