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You'd think this is the kind of issue reddit could solve instead of figuring out how to spam you with emails faster or creating snoo avatars.
by ALittleLight 5y ago
You'd think this is the kind of issue reddit could solve instead of figuring out how to spam you with emails faster or creating snoo avatars.
- cratermoon 5y agoLike most social networks, history is largely irrelevant to how they make money. They need to keep you clicking on the new, the ephemeral, and the unusual, serving up ads and collecting information about your interests, hobbies, habits, and biases to refine the ad targeting. After a year or two "most popular" no longer means much for those sites.
- ethbr0 5y agoThe problem with useful history is that it reminds people that information quality can be time-independent. I can read something written 20 years ago... anytime in the next decade, without a huge difference. Which tends to directly clash with the temporal rat-race design used to keep customer eyeballs glued to apps for 100% of the day.