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What Instagram really learned from hiding like counts
There is no single, monolithic “algorithm,” because each platform works in its own way, incorporating custom-designed variables and sets of equations.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
Some social technology makes being honest more difficult: for example, it may be harder to be honest on Instagram, if honest posts get fewer likes, or are harder to caption well.
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If taste indeed must be deeply felt, requires time to engage with, and benefits from the surprise that comes from the unfamiliar, then it seems that technology could not possibly replicate it, because algorithmic feeds run counter to these fundamental qualities. When recommendation algorithms are based only on data about what you and other platform
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Twitter Experiments with New Ways to Enable Custom Algorithm Controls
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