• Michael H. Jenkins
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    8 months ago

    I have a very difficult time imagining an internet that is both interoperable and ranking-free. Now, that having been said, we are well outside my area of expertise here so I’d love to hear from folks who know more than me.

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      8 months ago

      What about just giving transparency to what the ranking is and letting people control it? Analogous to “sort by new/best/top” bit ideally with more knobs to tweak and a bunch of preset options?

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        8 months ago

        Then it’s just more easily abused by SEO. “Best” according to who? Votes? Number of views? Page rank? All numbers can be manipulated.

      • Valmond@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Yeah, please only include lightweight pages please, with short texts. For example.

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        8 months ago

        That could work, I suppose, but I do wonder how much it would slow everything down.