A lot of blocks people have are of mastodon instances as well so if youre only interested in thread content that probably needs to be taken into account as well since mastodon instances tend to have more people than lemmy instances
Also to note if you don’t want significantly change the proportions add 1 to both top and bottom. It’s going to remove the divide by zero error and won’t significantly alter ratios. It’s used often in data science to avoid this problem
It’s hard to say what algorithm would serve you better. Seems like this does what you are seeing it to do. It’s not how I’d do it, but I don’t prioritize unblocked users. To fix this, I’d assign a multiplier for zero blocked users. It might be one so that no blocked users is the same as one mathematically. But maybe free speech is so important to you that you give it a multiplier of 2 or wherever.
active_users / [MAX(1,blocked_users)]
This would be a multiple of 1. Change the 1 to a 0.5 for a multiple of 2.
I didn’t look at the script but it probably has a Max function which just returns the higher of two numbers, effectively putting a lower bound on the possible values.
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Then you want to selfhost, otherwise you’ll always be at the will of someone else to decide which instances they want to federate with.
Even then, you’ll still want to have in mind instances known for spam, bots, or shady content have been blocked.
Is there a list tracking these instances?
Fediseer tends to be what most people use to track and list this sort of thing (and its whats used for this instance)
https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/censured?page=1
A lot of blocks people have are of mastodon instances as well so if youre only interested in thread content that probably needs to be taken into account as well since mastodon instances tend to have more people than lemmy instances
Just add 1 to the denominator.
Simple is best.
The max(1,total_blocked) method will make instances with 1 blocked and 0 blocked appear to be equal.
Also to note if you don’t want significantly change the proportions add 1 to both top and bottom. It’s going to remove the divide by zero error and won’t significantly alter ratios. It’s used often in data science to avoid this problem
It’s hard to say what algorithm would serve you better. Seems like this does what you are seeing it to do. It’s not how I’d do it, but I don’t prioritize unblocked users. To fix this, I’d assign a multiplier for zero blocked users. It might be one so that no blocked users is the same as one mathematically. But maybe free speech is so important to you that you give it a multiplier of 2 or wherever.
active_users / [MAX(1,blocked_users)]
This would be a multiple of 1. Change the 1 to a 0.5 for a multiple of 2.
I didn’t look at the script but it probably has a Max function which just returns the higher of two numbers, effectively putting a lower bound on the possible values.