in meatspace humans historically lean heavily on clear, hard-or-costly-to-fake visual cues for ingroup / kinship-group sorting but Twitter's algorithms seem able to sort us into strongly felt kinship groups with little of that kind of data how can we learn to see like Twitter
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Replying to @chaosprime
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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Replying to @rezzealaux
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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Replying to @rezzealaux
pretty sure, haven't dug into it real hard or nothin' so grain of salt
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