Stop thinking you need the algo and consider instead how much better you'd do if there was no algo. If everybody was on an even playing field. Don't play to the interests of the corporate platforms but join the movement to move everybody off of them instead. Fedi corrects for the mistake of again becoming reliant for attention on the same people that the web originally freed us from. #SocialWeb
Virality means the most dramatic (and therefore manipulative, narcissistic, egotistic) people control what we see.
Just like the legacy media actually.
Worst part isn't linear, it's exponential.
If you don't have an algorithm and you make a post nobody likes, nobody likes it. If you do have an algorithm and you make a post nobody likes, you'll be disproportionately rewarded for making something viral.
On the fediverse, every once in awhile I'll post a meme that does great, and other times I post something substantial on Yugoslavia and get pretty little engagement. But it's fine, people will see what they want to see and they won't see what they don't want to see, but who follow me will get everything -- post about Yugoslavia and the meme post. On big tech, the fact that I make a post about Yugoslavia it's typically going to mean that nobody sees my meme post because I pounded myself into the dirt through the algorithm.
If you don't have an algorithm and you make a post nobody likes, nobody likes it. If you do have an algorithm and you make a post nobody likes, you'll be disproportionately rewarded for making something viral.
On the fediverse, every once in awhile I'll post a meme that does great, and other times I post something substantial on Yugoslavia and get pretty little engagement. But it's fine, people will see what they want to see and they won't see what they don't want to see, but who follow me will get everything -- post about Yugoslavia and the meme post. On big tech, the fact that I make a post about Yugoslavia it's typically going to mean that nobody sees my meme post because I pounded myself into the dirt through the algorithm.
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