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SCOOP: on #WSocial's website, comment counts for posts by prominent users are incorrectly displayed, showing artificially elevated numbers.

An ATproto user came up with an interesting theory for it.

My article: "W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data"

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/

#blog #BigTech #EUBigTech #TEP #TrustedEuropeanPlatforms #TrustYourFeed

W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data

W Social's tagline is "Trust Your Feed" but the company's landing page displays inflated engagement metrics - a misrepresentation that contradicts its own promise.

Elena Rossini

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Moritz 16h ago

@_elena Dear Elena, I'd love to read your post, but your website brings my Macbook nearly to a full halt. The background animation in the header completely kills my Macbook Pro 2021 with Firefox 153 (using an external 4k screen). Can barely scroll the website anymore. Using reader mode now, but maybe you should take a look into this.

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Elena Rossini 🌈

@preya ooooh it's the first time I receive such a complaint. I'm so sorry.

I use a Macbook Air from 2013 (!!!) to write articles and never had any issues with the website.

It's a premium theme I bought, not much tweaking I can do unfortunately. I recommend subscribing to the blog via RSS maybe?