Anil DashIt's wild that we're still having arguments about the value (and skewing effect) of social media platforms choosing what to amplify. Back in 2000, I was an editor on "Blogs of Note", which was the list of featured blogs on Blogger.com, at that time the most visible and "mainstream" social media platform. @ev had let me add new blogs to feature based on what was interesting, and _even then_ we knew that had an effect on how the platform was seen, and who became an influencer.
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Katie J Lee@anildash @ev And even more than that - how those acts of curation change the whole mindset/ethos/culture of a website (or the wider web if it's influential enough). I wrote a piece back in the 2000s about how curation sites like Fark weren't welcoming to women. Fark linked to it and I got a heap of rape and death threats.
Dinah 🕊🇺🇦@metagrrrl @anildash @ev It wasn't fun although I guess it did at least prove my point 🥴. Thankfully these days dickheads don't scare me like they used to