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Is it possible to design a social media app or service that rather than focuses on farming engagement, it tries to promote quality content? (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But there are ways to better incentivse it.

Ie. the default lemmy sort “active” takes replies, upvotes, and downvotes as “activity” and promotes posts that get a lot of any of them. This tends to promote controversial content.

If you sort by top, its instead only based on upvotes and the sort promotes less divisive and controversial stuff and more “quality” stuff.

[–] taladar 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wouldn't say that upvotes always mean quality, they could also just indicate mass appeal while quality but niche content is hidden that way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I never said they did. Just that they tended to be more correlated with quality than downvotes or replies.