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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • Not sure if troll, but I’ll explain just in case.

    You wrote:

    Perhaps not everyone uses the platform the same way you do?

    What I meant was that you can see an exact number of the people thatuse the platform one way or the other (enjoy youtube link posts vs those who don’t enjoy them) in the likes and dislikes (on the original post).

    Calculating the ratio is as simple as dividing one number by the other … but it is a bit more useful to divide one of the votes against the total number of people who voted. You can further normalize the results as percentages.

    Currently there are 23 upvotes and 26 downvotes. That results in:

    • Upvote Percentage: ~47%
    • Downvote Percentage: ~53%

    (and I challange you to do the math yourself because I am too lazy to type it out)

    The point is - this percentages (or the ratio of likes to dislikes) represent the groups of people you talk about. Why are you saying “perhaps not everyone …” when you can see that about half of the people are enjoying the content and half don’t.

    (I know the numbers are not perfectly correlated to the attributes we discuss, due to bots, irrational votes etc. but they are good enough to get an approximation)


    Further trivia about the term “ratio” in the context of social media platforms, especially twitter: https://reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/n25w8s/whats_the_deal_with_the_term_ratio_on_twitter/

    The “why” comments in this thread are a similar kind of ratio concept as on twitter. Even though here we have likes and dislikes directly visible.







  • I don’t navigate the site at all.

    I just use the commandline to push commits to repos.

    For creating a new repo on sr.ht I have written a script that uses the GraphQL API (which is horribly documented in my opinion and required days of trial and error). It is not meant for general users and is specific to my needs, but anyone who is interesred can find it linked below.

    If you want to use it, you have to run git init and do a commit first. Everything else should be explained in the help. The script does some other stuff that I wanted when migrating all my projects from github, which you should be able to easily modify.

    https://clbin.com/EII4R

    (unlicense)