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It being a difficulty in general in any multi-billion-person environment: seems very likely yes. It's not a tautology for a site to bias for it though. That's
by Groxx 2y ago
It being a difficulty in general in any multi-billion-person environment: seems very likely yes.
It's not a tautology for a site to bias for it though. That's a decision.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoHow do you know for sure they are biased ‘for it’ instead of being roughly on the ball, reflecting the natural gradient?
- Groxx 2y agoBy the massively higher amount of spam and scams on Facebook, compared to IRL. I don't step outside on any random day and get immediately blasted in the face by dozens of One Weird Tricks and AI-generated images of Jesus crossed with shrimp.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoHave you thought this through? There’s probably over a million literally deranged people on Facebook. Even if you only come across a tiny fraction of them, that’s still way more then you could possibly ever encounter in real life, in one physical community, due to simple probability and population density…
- Groxx 2y agoAnd building a thing where you massively increase their reach is a decision, yes. As an example, it could be Nextdoor-y[1], bound to physical location rather than global. And that's not a stretch either: it's what Facebook was in the early days. They decided to change it, to become what it is now. [1]: I do not in any way mean to imply Nextdoor is doing things right, just showing that "social network structure" is a decision, not some kind of inevitability.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoHuh? Facebook was never bound to physical location… Even Harvard kids doing exchange programs overseas signed up for it in the first year of operation.