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1. Hynek Schlawack (hynek@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 08:53:27 CET Hynek Schlawack

   Point 2 in this assessment on why Medium failed by its current CEO really resonates with me (although I think the reasons for why it sucks are more far-fetching): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34747015

   If you optimize for content creators & engagement, you get people gaming the system. 🧵[1/3]

   • Hynek Schlawack (hynek@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 08:53:27 CET Hynek Schlawack

     in reply to

     You get people producing content about stuff they know nothing about b/c it’s a trending topic—ideally with an incendiary slant: X is OVER! Y is the FUTURE! You’re doing Z WRONG! N tools/packages you MUST be using!

     You get an endless stream of the most basic, repetitive, unoriginal 🤯 stuff b/c there’s an endless supply of beginners.

     YouTube is particularly guilty of those, but social media threads & conf talks are competing HARD.

     🧵[2/3]

     Pybonacci repeated this.
   • Hynek Schlawack (hynek@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 08:53:27 CET Hynek Schlawack

     in reply to

     Sometimes I joke that I’m self-sabotaging by writing about stuff nobody cares about. But someone cares. I do. And I want more content like that to exist, so I don’t have to figure it out myself and blog about it. I’m trying to be the change in the world that I want to see, but it’s lonely.

     Anyhow, let’s enjoy Mastodon while there’s no algorithm to game. 🧵[3/3]