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I'll keep looking out for a good explainer on it, but it's pretty complex stuff, and rather specific to each individual case... Hard to generalize the ideas.

Basically everything I've got that is relevant is about information propagation in networks... It'd probably be easier for you to build an agent based simulation to model this out than to dive into the literature on it, even if you have to learn to code.

Not handy at the moment, and most of this info is pretty inaccessible without just talking it through like we are here.

I'll see what I can pull up for you in a bit, though.

Also, thanks! That's a very generous response of yours. I appreciate it.

Now that's better.

Just think about what you're doing and how others may react to it.

I'm here for my benefit, not yours. It's rude to treat me or others like pawns to get something you want.

I reward people on Twetch for good behavior.

But my rewards rarely come in the form you either want or expect them to.

BSV doesn't necessarily "solve" this problem... But it does make it a moot point at scale.

It would be far more expensive to sift through the transactions to find ones to manipulate than to just mine them.

Yup, that's me. Pulled all my hair out, don't you know?

You should study the problem more deeply.

Ask whether the claims people make are actually true about what these systems do.

Look at the network structure. How does information flow between nodes?

In some cases, that's how they identify which transactions to manipulate, but in BSV, you'd have to be either an app operator, or a miner scanning everything to do this. It's just not practical at scale.

As for validators, they don't matter here unless they are building blocks and enforcing the first-seen rule.

Faster block times actually makes it easier to engage in MEV style manipulations.

Ha, now that is funny.

"You won't pay me when I randomly tagged you so that someone else will pay me in a giveaway, and you're annoyed that I'm wasting your time? I know, I'll insult you!"

This is why I don't spend time here. Too much damned noise!

If you want to make money, do the work. Provide value to people. Don't beg.

And definitely don't waste people's time.

Let's see... Spending money to like a post that I'm randomly tagged in so that someone else can be given money...

I'm just not seeing the value for me here.

Why did you tag me if there's nothing to interest me here?

Why?

So you can make money?

No.

You're wasting my time by tagging me in something that isn't valuable to me.

It's rude.

In which I said words:
https://coingeek.com/matthew-zietzke-fundamental-errors-of-btc-and-lightning-network/

That won't be very free on Twetch.

Finding a niche should be a natural byproduct of getting value from the system.

But because Twetch is a negative sum game for money, most people will spend more than they earn here. Hence why it's better to focus on value gained from interactions.

And, with a more heterogeneous culture, it will actually be easy to find your niche because it's not necessarily about being the highest earning member of that niche - it's more valuable to be a participant in that niche instead.

It was a pleasure for me as well.

The real problem is, the Twetch folks don't understand that aggregated feeds, even sorted by something like PoW or monetary earnings, do not necessarily give you what you value.

Value is subjective, and so, signal is subjective.

To simplify, all of the problems you identify are a result of the homogeneous culture here that promotes shitposting.

I'm suggesting ways to make the culture heterogeneous, to make cultural niches viable.

This is the one missing piece for Twetch.

When they learn this, they will free up a lot of their time and energy by no longer pursuing dead end ideas. Then, they can truly succeed.

This is why I've talked about an incentivized content tagging system.

Incentives can create a positive feedback loop to ensure quality of tagging, and users can use that system to find their niche much more easily than looking through aggregated feeds.

For a user to be established, they have to find their niche. They don't have to be interesting or clever, because when they find their niche, they'll be able to produce signal with others who perceive their actions as signal rather than noise.

Signal =/= echo chamber unless that's exactly what you're looking for.

Regarding me having a following, sure, but if my way were the one taken, the provided feeds would be much easier to navigate to find something you find valuable.

Not necessarily filtering out noise, but filtering for signal, where that signal is unique to each individual user.

This is where incentivized content tagging may be useful...

No, the solution isn't to disconnect the network completely...

And no, that's not "good marketing"... It's good pigeonholing.

Most social media is actually very poor at maximizing signal:noise ratios, especially considering their monetization comes from adding noise in the form of ads.

And, they don't have the incentivization methods Twetch does.

In that search, you'll find posts where I talk about how Twetch is good at maximizing signal:noise.

This is still true, except the culture has been actively homogenized, so unless you're interested in what that culture has to offer, it's all noise.