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It's not that. It's as simple as: use of recommendation algorithms + forums at scale. When you do this, people are automatically shown things that piss them o
by stuaxo 6y ago
It's not that.
It's as simple as: use of recommendation algorithms + forums at scale.
When you do this, people are automatically shown things that piss them off (outrage has higher engagement).
The bigger the scale, the worse it is.
Once you get past a certain scale you could get the same effect without the algorithm, but the algorithm makes it much worse.
- fellellor 6y agoThe motivation behind using algorithms that optimise for engagement is to build massive networks with billions of users. So, ultimately it does come down to what is the business objective for the network in the first place because that forces you to make these choices.
- imtringued 6y agoI will concede one thing, GME was an outrage driven investment. Because there was a story about "evil" short sellers doing "evil" things everyone was collectively mad at them and social media networks spread this all over the place, even Youtube.