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mk  ·  4322 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Apathy

Hey joelg236. First, thanks for the insight.

I agree that lack of diversity is a bad thing for Hubski. For starters, I removed the 'popular users' list from the community page. That might help reduce the number of new users that default to following the most popular users.

However, I can see how that might not be enough, as the current disparity in follower numbers might be reinforced by sharing alone. I'm willing to go farther to reduce the influence of the number of followers a user has. I want to think on this, and discuss it some more.

Another thing that we implemented today is that comment activity plays a role in the feed algorithm now. Hopefully, that will give conversation more attention as opposed to shares alone.