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Had a chat with someone very close to the "powers that be" on a certain social media platform and he confirmed something I'd suspected for a long time.
That is, pretty much all major social platforms are investing insane amounts of engineering into detecting, grading and penalising ANYTHING that even remotely identifies as non-human input.
All your shitty hooks. All the lame attempts to break up sentences into one liners. It's all getting pattern recognition sinkhole'd like you wouldn't believe.
It makes sense when you think about it. Why wouldn't they. Which ever platform generates the most human input wins.
I guess the only surprising thing besides learning how much they actually track this, is how subtle their penalisation will be.
They're not going to pop a flag up on your UI telling you what's happening to your reach - that would be stupid. Rather, they'll just slowly choke you out.
Coding agents are the new get rich quick scheme ... before kids maxed out credit cards buying BTC, now they're buying LLM credits expecting to create the next big $$$ tech product.
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I often wonder what websites are doing under the hood that we unknowingly agree to.
Privacy Policys and T & Cs ... but you need a law degree to make sense of those.
Building a browser extension to pull out the highlights ... oh look Spotify wants your voice data.
If Telegram used a distributed and participatory data storage solution like IPFS or similar would they be able to wash their hands of the responsibility goverment's place on them to moderate the content user's distribute on their platform?
A huge challenge with building products in a team.
Everyone on the team needs to feel like they can affect the direction of the product and that their ideas are heard. If not they will quit.
If everyone's idea is integrated into the product. It will converge to mediocrity.











