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by dont__panic 1397 days ago
Spot-on analysis. These days, I use sheer volume of personal, human-generated content as a filter: I visit a blog, and if there is a history of quality posts, I know I can at least trust that this opinion is genuine and human. That's not to say it's correct... but at least I won't feel manipulated any more than if any friend recommended a crappy product, TV show, or movie to me. Spam redditor accounts are relatively easy to screen based on history -- real people have varied comment histories with passionate comments based on their thoughts and feelings. Spam accounts do not.

With stuff like GPT-3 and DALL-E, I'm not sure how much longer this metric will suffice. But I don't think impermanent, semi-synchronous mediums like discord will fill the gap for me. Nor will web3, which, as far as I can tell, is simply a pile of increasingly abstreuse ponzi schemes.

I continue to hope for a decentralized blog + RSS solution. It's as simple as growing the community with existing standards, after all.