alt Hacker NewsNot true. YouTube, Facebook and Twitter were all successful products before they added personalised algorithmic feeds. Facebook just showed you everything by your friends. Twitter showed your follows (like bsky) and YouTube showed your channels.
The personalised algorithmic junk came later. It was never required for the websites to be wildly popular.
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netdevphoenix • today at 9:33 AM
Successful and profitable are not the same thing.
But popular does not mean profitable.
You would go on Facebook for 5 minutes and catch up with your friends. Great.
That’s not much time to shovel adverts. Better to get you engaged with ragebait or cute kittens or whatever keeps you on the site for an hour or 5.