Post #2446276

2022-11-26 16:47 UTC

@tuckerteague@mastodon.social it also suggest that the only reason I "liked" posts on Twitter was because of the algorithm. That's not true, it is a form of communication towards the poster. Human interaction. And I can for the life of me not see why this part of it wouldn't be the same here.

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@tuckerteague@mastodon.social 2022-11-26 16:57

@wijsgerig@mas.to Yes. In a kind of backwards way, when folks start mentioning there's no algorithm here it's like they're bringing a kind of "algorithm way of thinking" to help guide everyone here to somehow make the site work better. Boosting is good too, but I like the human side of this more than the "gamefication" of social networks.

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@palafo@mstdn.social 2022-11-26 22:46

@wijsgerig@mas.to @tuckerteague@mastodon.social Yeah, I remember when Twitter started aggressively showing my likes to other people & I wish they hadn’t.

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@lilianedwards@someone.elses.computer 2022-11-26 23:32

@wijsgerig@mas.to it never even OCCURRED to me to like posts on Twitter to boost the algorithm ( as opposed to please the poster) & I still find it utterly bizarre that this was apparently what ROW was doing. Weirdos.

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