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Re:I resigned from Twitter by manigandham on Monday November 29, 2021 @12:42PM (#29382700)
Advertising is placed into the feed, but it doesn't determine it. You still get what you like and engage with the most.
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Re:I resigned from Twitter by jMyles on Monday November 29, 2021 @02:07PM (#29383813)
I'll believe claims of this sort when production feed generation algorithms are released under an open license.
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Re:I resigned from Twitter by manigandham on Monday November 29, 2021 @02:38PM (#29384204)
What difference do you think the feed makes for slotting in ads every few stories?
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Re:I resigned from Twitter by jMyles on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @11:09PM (#29412473)
I believe that the feeds are far more manipulated than this. Facebook got caught once intentionally manipulating feeds to attempt to produce negative mental states. Do you honestly think they just completely stopped? I think it's plausible that it's happening on a much larger scale than it was then.
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