git ssb

Hullo, mix.

I recently created a 'toy script' that would aggregate a dictionary of scuttlebutt user IDs to 'number of times I've liked their messages'. That way, you can get an impression of who a user consistently enjoys the content of on scuttlebutt. Here it is here: https://github.com/Happy0/glasgow-js-ssb-talk/blob/master/index.js

I was going to 'half live code it' it in one of the scuttlebutt talks I did recently, but I didn't have time.

Do you think it'd be useful to add this sort of functionality to this module too?

That way, if someone is creating some algorithm to organise a feed (show the user feed content in a certain order), or have a list of recent activity a user might enjoy, they could incorporate 'number of likes' and 'number of mentions' too.

Could perhaps add some weighting for 'recency of likes' too.

I have a unfashionable confession to make: I often like the content Twitter's algorithm recommends to me. It often does a good job :P. I think scuttlebutt has an opportunity to put what content the user sees in the user's hands though - either through UI options, or different clients with different approaches.

Or would this sort of functionality belong in an different scuttlebutt plugin instead?

Mind you, it's actually quite expensive to call 'get' on a random ID (to see who the author of the post the user liked was) - I've seen it take seconds. That's a separate issue though - I'm sure there must be some way around that otherwise certain things in patchbay / patchwork wouldn't be as fast.