Richard MacManus on Nostr: 2/3 Back then, nobody thought the algorithmic feed was a big deal. Suddenly, Facebook ...
2/3 Back then, nobody thought the algorithmic feed was a big deal. Suddenly, Facebook had great power over what you saw in your feed every day. Web 2.0 was supposed to be about giving users new powers—the power to “write” and not just “read” web content, the power to control your interactions with content through products like RSS readers. It was a subtle change that Facebook made, and the implication only became clear later: you don’t control what you see in your feed every day, Facebook does.
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