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Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

@pixelfed

I love what you do and the idea of helping with discovery, but...

basing it on popularity rather than the users unique interests just recreates one of the big problems of traditional silo media, the two caste system.

First you have the "upper" caste accounts (aka "Mr Beast"s) who got popular early and then snowball as being popular means being more recommended means being more popular ad infinitum. Then the lower caste will never be recommended as they're not already popular.

23 June at 15:31 | Open on social.tchncs.de
Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

@pixelfed

The alternative is to match accounts recommended not by popularity, but to the interests of the new user. This way users with niche interests get recommended
accounts that could be relatively small, but are posting about the topics they care about, more than just en(g/r)agement clickbait. These interests can be from hashtags they enter on joining, scanning links the user gives to their previous posts online (social accounts, blogs etc). This rewards interesting posts not popularity.

23 June at 16:00 | Open on social.tchncs.de
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