Celestine Chua✅Apr 26, 2017
@Enfors @ken Another plus point that me & @osahiro discussed is how it doesn't publicly show the number of Re-Toots/Favorites in the public timeline. It makes RT/Fav an independent thought affair rather than herd/mob behavior, which I like. Facebook's algorithm, I feel, is just drowning out independent good quality content and increasing the divide between already popular (but not actually good) content & other sites. In a way, I feel online has been mimicking the widening divide offline.
Show threadEnforsApr 26, 2017
@osahiro @ken @celes Agreed. As president of a local sports club, it's disheartening to have your updates on Facebook about big projects you've put a lot of work into get less likes and therefore less eyeballs than low-effort selfies of beautiful people.
Show threadCelestine Chua✅
@Enfors @ken @osahiro I'm sorry to hear that! I feel you; I run a popular self-help site and my kind of (long-form) content no longer have any place in Facebook's algorithm, where content that's repeatedly upvoted/shared are very short-form, repetitive, "same-old" stuff that IMO doesn't move the needle in the big picture. I actually wrote about this at length here and how I deleted my page: https://personalexcellence.co/blog/delete-facebook/ (I still have it; but use it minimally now)
Apr 26, 2017 at 4:20pmWeb
Show threadCelestine Chua✅Apr 26, 2017
@osahiro @ken @Enfors It is really at the end of the day a race to the bottom (low quality drivel, who posts the thing that incites outrage/reaction/likes the quickest), and while I could just post material that does well in the algorithm, I really feel it's pointless so now I just take a step back and building my audience in other ways
Show threadOsahiroApr 27, 2017
@celes @Enfors @ken just one, i think that reply-tree or quotation are needed for convenience. already i saw the cases which need 500+ letters to write in mastodon.