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As soon as you start paying people to make content, you’re not social media - you’re just media.
It's been "media" ever since the first ad product launched, and cemented once the feeds were changed to infinite scroll "timelines" which ironically were not chronological ordered.
Not surprising at all this is happening if the intent is to make X less awful. (Which is something Nikita Bier has been trying to do since he was hired.) Incentivizing content creation does at least two things: it puts virality ahead of everything (quality, correctness, legitimacy) and also creates disproportionately greater value for users in poor or emerging economies. Earning a dollar or two from a post means a lo…
Tiktok was blatantly un-embarrassed about manual curation where they favor good-looking people, and that made the content good at the beginning.
X needs to do the same.
Not surprising at all this is happening if the intent is to make X less awful. (Which is something Nikita Bier has been trying to do since he was hired.) Incentivizing content creation does at least two things: it puts virality ahead of everything (quality, correctness, legitimacy) and also creates disproportionately greater value for users in poor or emerging economies. Earning a dollar or two from a post means a lo…
I saw Nikita mention that X will flag account locations in order to be transparent around a poster's origin [0] which is a step in the right direction, though abandoning the creator program altogether more so. Nikita has had a rough couple of weeks. Targeted with the most vile antisemitism I've seen after attempting to get doxxing campaigns under control. That is hard to do when your boss is overriding every decision…