Exploring recent posts from non following users

[mahdi-ln]

Importance of decentralized social media is that you can discover others without passing through a rigged algorithm and you disabled discovering other users all together!! For example a country/language filtered recent posts would be very useful

[debbiedub]

Comment on what you are writing: I don't think the country is known, or rather, if there were a way of knowing the country of a Sone, something in the design would be terribly flawed. The language is possible to guess from the contents of the Sone or course.

Comment on the large picture here: The speed of updates of all Sones is currently so low so it is easily possible to follow them all without problems. The interesting part of you suggestion is the question about what will happen if the amount of Sones or the amount of activity increases to a point where that is no longer possible. What mechanisms or algorithms will we need to help us find the things we are interested in? For sure, we don't want algorithms controlled by someone else.

If we think in the very traditional sense that it is the poster that decides how to organize the posts (forums, boards, tags, ...) then sone is still missing this. That could of course solve the problem that appears if I have multiple interests with members of the audience only interesting in a subset of them but it has its shortcomings and most other social media, including FMS does that already.

An idea would be to use the search to find "similar posts" i.e. posts using the same words. That would take us a little step towards finding posts with the same language while I guess the main use would be to find posts on the same subject.

In this case, I think whatever we decide to implement will form the behavior and the way we think about sone and what we need.

[Bombe]

I’m not quite sure what this is really about. Sone will happily tell its user about all other Sones it has found, e.g. with the “Known Sones” item in the menu. However, per default it doesn’t follow other Sones (except Sone’s) so it might look like there is no discovery.

The country/language thing might actually be contraproductive to some of Freenet’s goals, i.e. anonymity. Users may have a very good reason to not disclose their country, or their language. Some kind of tagging would really be nice, though, and could be extended to include language tags.