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Moving the feed from 'chronological' to 'algorithmic' obfuscates the true quantity of actual content on the your timeline, thereby allowing a higher density of
by niftich 10y ago
Moving the feed from 'chronological' to 'algorithmic' obfuscates the true quantity of actual content on the your timeline, thereby allowing a higher density of ads and other sponsored content without you necessarily being able to tell or prove.
I hypothesized about other benefits and drawbacks here [1]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12190724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12190724