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this is news? social media and promotion algorithms have always been attention roulette for ad dollars, and nothing in that ecosystem has a knowledge of "meaning", just engagement through statistics.
Note that the post is about 'creating content'. Of course what they want is 'engagement'. If you actually have something to say about a subject you care about, the term is not 'creating content'.
Good timing... I'm building an alternative to Twitter and nearing our launch date. It's focused on devs and HN readers, even having an integration with HN.
Curious, what do you think can be done better? Maybe Twitter's whole approach is just not interesting anymore.
The closest strategy we have to something that is long-term viable is:
- non-commercial, so developers focus on building a product for users, rather than advertisers
- decentralised, to provide an escape mechanism for product direction/moderation/etc going poorly
But even then, the only winning move is not to play
Don't use the algorithm. Press the "following" tab.
The author is also looking to get readership, so the correct, but basically impossible, advice is: Make sure that the vast majority of your potential readership are actively avoiding the default experience being heavily promoted by the platform.
I agree that this makes the site not worth using as is. So I use a browser extension that removes almost everything except tweets from people I follow, including ads. With that in place I find it to be a service with a high signal to noise ratio.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Note that the post is about 'creating content'. Of course what they want is 'engagement'. If you actually have something to say about a subject you care about, the term is not 'creating content'.
not from your perspective. but from the viewpoint of the platform, it is just more content
The post wasn’t written by a (person who works for a) platform, it was written by a user of it.
this is news? social media and promotion algorithms have always been attention roulette for ad dollars, and nothing in that ecosystem has a knowledge of "meaning", just engagement through statistics.
> Attention on Twitter no longer has any ripple effects beyond the platform out of the internet, back into many many sub-nets all isolated and in many cases fighting each other > Attention on Twitter no longer has any ripple effects beyond the platform because you're now expected to pay for that, pay google, pay face book, the more of them you pay the higher your reach. money has reasserted itself as social control o…