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   Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 06:29:41 JST Eaton

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   • ZachSCARY Leatherman :11ty:

   @zachleat I remember one of the early critiques of mastodon’s feed was from a Twitter engineer who explained that it would never work, because it didn’t deliver what people “wanted” — but after rounds of discussion, it became clear that he was talking about “what people endlessly click on.”

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     ZachSCARY Leatherman :11ty: (zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 06:29:42 JST ZachSCARY Leatherman :11ty:

     After over a year of using Mastodon almost exclusively for social media—it’s *still* a shock to go back to visit an algorithmically-driven social network.

     Scrolling and reading on other sites feels like eating a candy bar while drinking a soda—the candy bar has very little flavor—your taste buds are already overloaded by sugar.

     And yet sugar is the algorithmically incentivized form of content, so sugary posts are the only ones that get traction.