DrGiltspur

Yeah, an incredible amount of effort must go in to each video he produces. He always covers the topic in great depth.

For example, one can imagine a mathematics & physics oriented instance where LaTeX is available, or a chess-only instance where you’d have things like chessboard.js to allow members to post chess diagrams etc…

An interesting idea. But the problem with that is that the custom rendered content would not federate properly, so such communities would only really be usable to those on that instance, which destroys the whole point of being federated in the first place. Unless they were able to implement some sort of 'graceful degradation' so the content was enhanced on the main instance, but still serviceable on other instances.

Does anyone have any insight into what actually changed with how the score is calculated? Neither the dailydot article nor the linked letterboxd blog post really say what has changed, just that it is different now and that people are mad. (It's the internet, of course people are mad!).