Seeing Like a State Machine
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If tweeter's algos are sorting people, I can't see it. Do people really find others through hashtags and search? I pick out interesting people from replies of those I already follow. Unless the algo is there too, which with shadowb*nning on the rise...
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nah, not hashtags and search, more "who to follow", RT surfacing (which is algorithmically influenced now) and like surfacing (which was always 100% algorithmic). prolly "the algorithm" gets credit for some of people's own sorting activity but it does seem to have developed
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coordinated outfits
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I think pseudonymity contributes to revealing preferences. Revealing preferences facilitates self-sorting. Twitter is mostly just helping you do to yourself what you would have done anyway.
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Maybe the low stakes of Twitter exchanges make them more sincere. You don’t expect/pretend much from such encounters, so you’re truer to your nature. Replicating this attitude in real world interactions should do the trick. Easier said...
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