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jankyxenon • yesterday at 4:12 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

I agree the world was better with chronological feeds.

But humans prefer to spent more time on enraging/outrageous content.

So in a competitive social media environment - the platform with the most engaging content will win.

When TikTok launched short form Video - instagram’s choice was to copy or lose.


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lokar • yesterday at 4:48 PM

Didn't the US have a very vibrant culture of highly partisan outrage papers and pamphlets in the 19th century?

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superxpro12 • yesterday at 4:17 PM

"prefer" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

it is intentional, or is it engineered?

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2001zhaozhao • yesterday at 4:36 PM

Agreed, the state of social media today is basically a result of market failure.

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