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Actually, it’s even simpler than that. Mathematically, if you are in a network with 100 people, the platform can show you a higher proportion of posts before yo
by EGreg 3y ago
Actually, it’s even simpler than that. Mathematically, if you are in a network with 100 people, the platform can show you a higher proportion of posts before you hit that Dunbar number or limit of how many posts are going to read. If the same network has 1 million people, and you have thousands of connections there, then obviously, each person’s posts are seen less and there is more filtering happening. The real question is, how much advertising, memes, cat videos in general garbage the network pushes into your feed.
- EGreg 3y agoIncidentally this is also the mundane reason behind the Women in Tech controversy. Women in tech reported more asshole behavior by men because the probability of encountering a man was higher, than in other industries, and not because tech has more assholes (if anything I have found tech people to be nicer and meeker in general than others, like comics or lawyers). If the ratio was more 50/50 then this phenomenon would go away. (Also, tech workers get a lot of money and prestige which is why it makes the news more than, say women in plumbing or carpentry.)