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 Elon Musk actually kept a promise and released the source code to Twitter’s Recommendation Algorithm. And it reveals a lot. A key learning is that—unless you’re famous—if you put a link into a tweet, you’re pretty much treated like a spammer because Twitter HATES links! And why is this? Because Twitter (and Big Social) will kneecap interoperability every chance they get because they HATE the open web. 22 comments
At least Twitter lets you send a link. Instagram doesn’t support links at all. So if you want to share something off Instagram to Instagram, your only choice is to screenshot. Or tell people to click the link in your bio which, to be honest, most people won’t do because it’s inconvenient. This is why we all need to be skeptical about Meta’s eventual arrival into the Fediverse. Many of you ask me, “What’s the Fediverse’s killer app?” Some people say it will be clients. Some believe it will be the vast array of services. But I think it’s far more revolutionary than that: On the Fediverse, a message is a message is a message. Even if the message originates from somewhere else, it’s a message here. @atomicpoet on some level, ActivityStreams can be seen as just a conceptual evolution of rss. Hear me out. We wanted to federate what we published and make it easily accessible. Next, we wanted to federate interactions. The protocol has potential to become something that empowers a lot of new things. We didn’t know how big podcasts would become when we first saw rss. It’s hard to tell what big things will be built on top of this technology.  @atomicpoet I didn't ask what the next killer app would be. I explained what it could be. No other social app let's you create your own client interface the way the fediverse does. If that realization manages to take hold its a game changer. The message is the media. The media is what touches the sensorium. That is the client. @atomicpoet  @atomicpoet @programmablecat I’d argue the Fediverse needs no killer app as it doesn’t live within the realm of competition. And that’s its best aspect.  @atomicpoet I’m not staying on a social network that has meta on it. Either they get defederated or I leave. They do not play nice, and they aren’t ethical. Simple as that. @atomicpoet Not only are normal people annoyed at “click in the bio to learn more” on Instagram, brands are just as frustrated. @atomicpoet and Facebook years ago started to embed the content and pictures on their site so that you don’t click on the link and stay on Facebook. Their goal was a long staying time at their website and that means showing and selling more advertising. That’s made Instagram so unattractive nowadays, the amount of ads. Besides that that they grab the user rights of the posted stuff. Lunatic development of big social media. TikTok is the worst  @atomicpoet it’s even worse: you can put a link in a post, but you must pay, and it’s limited to one link @atomicpoet another explanation is that links take you off of the platrofm and platofms wanna keep your attention as long as possible  @atomicpoet  Social media hates it if you put in a link pointing outside their walled garden. This is monopolies 101 stuff.  @atomicpoet @atomicpoet This must be why a lot of accounts I follow put links in a separate tweet when they post them. |
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@atomicpoet An alternative, or additional, theory is that they hate the provision of independent evidence. Evidence-free ranting is better for engagement.