• CombatWombat@feddit.online
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    4 days ago

    Actually, funny story, if you post more often actually people find it kind of irritating and they block you

    "What ends up happening is the best way to get more reach is just to post more often and those who can afford to post the most often do and then therefore get the most reach,” he said.

    “And it turns out your friends post a lot less than creators, who post a lot less than brands and companies.”

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      Yeah the behavior they’re talking about is enabled by their algorithm. Without big brother curating how much of the content makes it to your feed, people just stop following spammy accounts.

      It’s presented as convenience (“we’ll manage that for you”) but it’s actually manipulative (“we’ll tune it to exactly as much as you will tolerate”)

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      Actually, funny story, if you post more often actually people find it kind of irritating and they block you

      You are right