Yeah I think Jesse and Katie are struggling with the new algorithm, which I think is currently, roughly "we maximize for engagement, and so if you click through a post and it's comments, you're tacitly moving the needle to feed you more of that" because I get little of will stencil and his race-realist friends, but one time I watch a col…
Yeah I think Jesse and Katie are struggling with the new algorithm, which I think is currently, roughly "we maximize for engagement, and so if you click through a post and it's comments, you're tacitly moving the needle to feed you more of that" because I get little of will stencil and his race-realist friends, but one time I watch a college baseball game and the ump sucks (against UoF for which I have no affiliation with) and I check out whether people are tweeting about it, now I get lots of UoF content.
Meanwhile the prior twitter algorithm seemed to be "are you a verified tru-blue check? We maximize for your experience. So we deboost content you don't like (generally, anything right-coded), and boost things you do like (journalists circle jerking)". Which was insufferable for many people who aren't journalists.
So the new experience sucks for anyone that previously had a specially-awarded blue check, because the prior experience catered to them. But it is a different experience for people who didn't have blue checks before.
Yeah I think Jesse and Katie are struggling with the new algorithm, which I think is currently, roughly "we maximize for engagement, and so if you click through a post and it's comments, you're tacitly moving the needle to feed you more of that" because I get little of will stencil and his race-realist friends, but one time I watch a college baseball game and the ump sucks (against UoF for which I have no affiliation with) and I check out whether people are tweeting about it, now I get lots of UoF content.
Meanwhile the prior twitter algorithm seemed to be "are you a verified tru-blue check? We maximize for your experience. So we deboost content you don't like (generally, anything right-coded), and boost things you do like (journalists circle jerking)". Which was insufferable for many people who aren't journalists.
So the new experience sucks for anyone that previously had a specially-awarded blue check, because the prior experience catered to them. But it is a different experience for people who didn't have blue checks before.
Sure, but I also think it’s just recall bias, confirmation bias, that sort of thing.