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this is news? social media and promotion algorithms have always been attention roulette for ad dollars, and nothing in that ecosystem has a knowledge of "meanin

by scrame 2y ago

this is news? social media and promotion algorithms have always been attention roulette for ad dollars, and nothing in that ecosystem has a knowledge of "meaning", just engagement through statistics.

nottorp 2y ago
Note that the post is about 'creating content'. Of course what they want is 'engagement'. If you actually have something to say about a subject you care about, the term is not 'creating content'.
- ysofunny 2y ago
  not from your perspective. but from the viewpoint of the platform, it is just more content
  - latexr 2y ago
    > from the viewpoint of the platform The post wasn’t written by a (person who works for a) platform, it was written by a user of it.
hocuspocus 2y ago
Pre-Elon algorithmic timeline was certainly not perfect but it mostly did the job, and I'd discover accounts sharing content relevant to my interests, the need to mute or block was fairly minimal.