I enjoy having Kindle "popular highlights" turned on...

I enjoy having Kindle "popular highlights" turned on because it lets me go "Really? 438 people highlighted THIS of all things?"

Like 1 March at 15:08 | Open on friend.camp

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@darius I turn them off because I've found that I feel a strange internal pressure to highlight the same thing 🤷🏻‍♀️

1 March at 15:53 | Open on mastodon.social

Matthew Gallant

@darius I’m always curious about the feedback loops of that system. How many people paused, noticed, and highlighted that passage themselves because it was already called out as a popular highlight?

1 March at 16:45 | Open on mastodon.social

Darius Kazemi

@gangles right? I wonder if I can coordinate an effort to create a popular highlight of an innocuous sentence like "She walked outside."

1 March at 16:55 | Open on friend.camp

Eli the Bearded

@darius Just having the pipeline to record what people have highlighted strikes me as extremely creepy. It is why I have never been a fan of medium.com

1 March at 20:59 | Open on fed.qaz.red

kaho

@darius I would like to know if you then go on to highlight unpopular stuff or give in and become the 439th.

2 March at 1:53 | Open on coolkids.house

Darius Kazemi

@kaho obviously the unpopular stuff, it's my nature

2 March at 2:03 | Open on friend.camp

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