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Commercial social-media feed algorithms have one goal only: maximize engagement and thus revenue.
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What Tim Bray actually said
- Tim Bray Canadian software developer and writer
The algorithms that commercial social-media services use to sort your feed have one goal only: Maximize engagement and thus revenue. They have no concern for quality or morality, and have been widely condemned by people who think about this stuff.
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↗Mastodon, The Only Good Choicetbray.org
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