Irina Liakh 🎩
@irinaliakh
Just an observation: I’m seeing quite a few people (including some I genuinely enjoyed reading) pivot from the content they used to share to just offloading their entire camera roll into “quote cast your capture” type of casts or sharing photos from Pinterest, because it performs better for the leaderboard and makes it easier to crank out 20 casts a day. And honestly, that makes total sense, since it really feels like quantity over quality is what’s being rewarded. But I’m not sure how we’re supposed to onboard anyone if that’s what the algorithm favors and actually rewards. I completely understand why people pivot, stop writing their thoughts and sharing what they used to, and why so many just get discouraged from casting altogether.
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amc
@amc
Feed has been overrun with garbage, and people are being incentivized to keep on shoveling more on the TL If you’re not casting constantly it’s hard to make any noise on the leaderboard in my experience (which has changed in the last month or two)
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Irina Liakh 🎩
@irinaliakh
Yep, that’s exactly what I’m seeing too. The leaderboard 100% incentivizes quantity - I’ve noticed it even over the past few days, when I had a bit more things to share than usual and my score jumped a lot. It really feels like it doesn’t matter what you cast, as long as you crank out tons of casts every single day. Which is unrealistic - unless you start casting just for the sake of it, and then the feed turns into garbage when everyone does that.
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