Every #BigTech platform, whether it's @elonmusk's X, Instagram, #TikTok, or YouTube, deceives its users into thinking the "popular" content is legitimate.

That their platforms are a meritocracy.

That if you have many followers and many likes it means your content must be good.
These are lies.

These platforms use sophisticated AI to promote some content and suppress other content based on the history of who is speaking.
They'll then claim /the people/ must like the "popular content".

They'll try to avoid responsibility for what's "trending" by saying it's the people choosing when nothing could be further from the truth.

What you see on the front page is decided by these CEOs, and in turn YKW.

This is why I promote the #fediverse, because ONLY the fediverse is capable of calling itself a meritocracy.