The responses to this are wild, but also predictable. Seeing it is... I don’t know the right word. Number of likes is data. It helps determine what can be monetized and for how much. So, Instagram is just increasing an information assymetry, giving them more pricing power 1/xhttps://twitter.com/wired/status/1192959592285843456 …
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But geez. Some of those people are making money by engaging with followers who want to be there Why applaud anything that erodes their ability to price their influence correctly and lets the platform capture more of that revenue? Who does that benefit 4/x
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In many ways, we’ve constructed a system where the powerful often don’t have to take things from us by force. They just have to promise to do something that lowers the status of people we don’t like and we’ll give up just about anything 5/x
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