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Tay Zonday
@tayzonday
Targeting is my growth problem on every platform. I am not one content vertical. I’m one-hundred. Random segments of these will surface on any feed-based platform, each a non-sequitur to the last. This creates a revolving door where alienation and attraction reach equilibrium and growth stops. The range of interests following me becomes so wide that I am held hostage and only post the most broadly-appealing or likely-viral content. It’s not impossible for today’s machine-learning social media recommendation engines to facilitate more cosmopolitan followings, but it’s too resource intensive. These engines want to maximize user behavior KPIs with minimum CPU usage, which forcing followings into single content verticals facilitates. Humanity is the dog being wagged by the resource-minimizing-machine-learning-recommendation-engine tail. I’m just not that type of dog.
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ted (not lasso)
@ted
out of curiosity, who are you trying (or forced to try) to target? my #1 gripe with current social is that they force you to niche down until you're so specific to a certain group that it is hard to expand naturally. seems like your audience has a range of interests so maybe you don't have that issue / experience?
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alec
@alecpap
Is that forcing done under the context of trying to maximizing ones followers on the platform? Like if my goal is lulz would i experience rhat same force, or is it mostly for maximizing engagement/followership?
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