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It doesn't seem like facebook pumped the whole page, all other posts have extremely low engagement, literally < 10 likes. What's wrong with pumping individual "

It doesn't seem like facebook pumped the whole page, all other posts have extremely low engagement, literally < 10 likes. What's wrong with pumping individual "good" posts? If anything it can be seen as honorable/egalitarian giving folks a chance to make it even if they aren't some media behemoth.

jonas21 5y ago
This is the central tragedy of Facebook. They set out to build a platform where anyone, no matter how small, could compete with big media on a level playing field based on a straightforward metric: whether a user cares enough about a post that they're willing to engage with it. Publishers get rewarded for producing compelling content, users get to see more content they care about, and Facebook makes money since people spend more time on the site. Everybody wins. And they succeeded wildly at this. But as it turns out, the things people respond to most are spam and hate and conspiracy theories.
- BLKNSLVR 5y ago
  I'm really not sure if that was ever what Facebook set out to do. My mental construct of Facebook is analogous to Morty following the path defined by the death crystal but towards the end goal of 'the most money'.
  - krolden 5y ago
    Collect data
    - netizen-936824 5y ago
      And collecting data leads to what in this day and age? Collecting money.
  - Igelau 5y ago
    Mine is Universal Paperclips, except it makes engagement statistics instead of paperclips.
    - BLKNSLVR 5y ago
      The scenario describes an advanced artificial intelligence tasked with manufacturing paperclips. If such a machine were not programmed to value human life, then given enough power over its environment, it would try to turn all matter in the universe, including human beings, into either paperclips or machines which manufacture paperclips.[0] Replace "paperclips" with "clickbait" and "human life" with "the right to privacy". "Artificial intelligence" then becomes Mark Zuckerborg. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paperclip_maximizer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper...

jonas21 5y ago

This is the central tragedy of Facebook. They set out to build a platform where anyone, no matter how small, could compete with big media on a level playing field based on a straightforward metric: whether a user cares enough about a post that they're willing to engage with it. Publishers get rewarded for producing compelling content, users get to see more content they care about, and Facebook makes money since people spend more time on the site. Everybody wins. And they succeeded wildly at this. But as it turns out, the things people respond to most are spam and hate and conspiracy theories.

BLKNSLVR 5y ago
I'm really not sure if that was ever what Facebook set out to do. My mental construct of Facebook is analogous to Morty following the path defined by the death crystal but towards the end goal of 'the most money'.
- krolden 5y ago
  Collect data
  - netizen-936824 5y ago
    And collecting data leads to what in this day and age? Collecting money.
- Igelau 5y ago
  Mine is Universal Paperclips, except it makes engagement statistics instead of paperclips.
  - BLKNSLVR 5y ago
    The scenario describes an advanced artificial intelligence tasked with manufacturing paperclips. If such a machine were not programmed to value human life, then given enough power over its environment, it would try to turn all matter in the universe, including human beings, into either paperclips or machines which manufacture paperclips.[0] Replace "paperclips" with "clickbait" and "human life" with "the right to privacy". "Artificial intelligence" then becomes Mark Zuckerborg. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paperclip_maximizer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper...