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So as expected, there is exactly nothing that favors posters from one side of the political spectrum. I don't expect that this article will do anything to calm down those who are convinced otherwise though. Well written article, from an engineer's perspective.
You gotta hand it to Elon - he actually did it.
LOL. My algorithm at twitter had been very simple- See tweets from people I followed. Don't see tweets from people I didn't follow. Trust people I follow in their retweets to signal something interesting. Unfollow unhelpful people. Once that algorithm was rendered impossible, I left twitter. Haven't missed it. Having someone say- here's the way we are going to promote something to you- doesn't make me inclined to acc…
https://twitter.com/alexblechman/status/1641905502043926530?...
The algorithm really needs to recognise when tweets are time-sensitive and not recommend them just because they got a lot of engagement the previous day!
It's disappointing the comments are so obsessed with the political angle to this that there's a total lack of appreciation (or discussion) of opening up the most influential social media platform in the world.
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The vast majority of self-proclaimed independents vote with one party just as reliably as registered members.
American's lax attitude towards cultivating more than two parties is literally killing the republic from the inside.
The irony is that I prefer Mastodon's sort by time and don't try to be clever approach to this expensive and futile attempt to feed me an endless stream of click bait. I objectively spend more time on Mastodon than on Twitter at this point. It's more engaging for me. It's how Twitter used to work when it was still nice to use. If Twitter wants to put a stop to the user exodus and save lots of money in the process, he…
As near as I can tell, Mastodon doesn't really have #2 in the list above. Last I heard, the social architecture was hostile to comprehensive indexing of the entire fediverse for search. That's probably one of the biggest reasons that I have remained on Twitter even after setting up a Mastodon persona.
Great! But nothing is going to change until people realize that the problem is the feedback loop . It's not the recommendation engine itself, it's the fact that there's no way "out" of the feed that the engine produces. It recommends you stuff, you have little choice but to engage with it, and then it trains on that information . This is the problem with most of social media today. It is a very well known problem in…
reminds me of a story about a guy who was given a gift, a decorative plate with a rooster on it i think it was. didn’t care for it too much, but out of politeness put it on display on an empty cabinet he had. a while later someone noticed he had it and figured he liked it, so got him a similar decorative plate with a rooster on it. again, out of politeness, he put it next to the old one. now other people started to t…
It's disappointing the comments are so obsessed with the political angle to this that there's a total lack of appreciation (or discussion) of opening up the most influential social media platform in the world.
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Why is lines of code the appropriate input here? Here's a different computation that is at least as plausible: There are hundreds of millions of users. Let's say 300M. Only a single one is special-cased in this code: the narcisistic CEO who reportedly went ballistic when his engagement metrics went down. The prior that it's a change done in response to his demands is 299999999/300000000. (But of course it was added b…
This is a weird nitpick that doesn’t attack the argument at all. It’s a dense codebase but whatever measure you personally prefer
How is that a nitpick? They're diametrically opposite results.