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Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends
It’s ultimately up to the platform to decide what type of content gets recommended, not the social graph of the person producing the content. In contrast to social media, recommendation media is not a competition based on popularity; instead, it is a competition based on the absolute best content. Through this lens, it’s no wonder why Kylie Jenner ... See more
Michael Mignano • The End of Social Media
If we get big enough, there’s a real consideration on how we train the algorithm and what objective function we get or give it, and what content gets produced for it. We need to be very mindful of that because what I’d rather have is a world where we have more original content, more interesting content, and less of this gaming-the-algorithm content
... See moreBen Thompson • An Interview with Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger About Artifact
Consider what he is saying. Not only will Meta’s curation on feeds like Instagram and Facebook be entirely algorithmic, but the content will largely be produced by algorithms, too. No longer will there be middlemen—your aunt, a friend from high school, or a Taylor Swift fan account—that you are responding to. Instead, you’ll be interacting directly... See more
Evan Armstrong • Feasting at the Trough of AI Slop
Algorithm-friendly design (see TikTok vs twitter). A shift from making the pixel perfect experience to how we help the algorithm understand better and faster who we are and give us the content that we want.
https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/9/18/seeing-like-an-algorithm
The CEO of Patreon @jackconte recently pointed out that we're seeing the death of the follower. I took note of this because I remember @nateliason saying the same exact thing at a dinner months ago.
The algorithmic ranking concept that Facebook started in the early 2010s has recently been perfected by TikTok (and now all other platforms mimicking ... See more
