Lately I've been asking myself if I truly need to follow someone, or it could simply be something that happens with an algorithm behind the scenes.
Why do we still need to follow?
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I guess what you describe is TikTok (as I understand it, there’s the feed of accounts you follow, and the one where it’s just recommended content, and most people use the latter). I think it’s not always desirable because it ends up with perverse side effects like people having…
X has the same in "For you", right? In there you can also have lists, which I do -> that's also like following, but you could divide by topics. More like a news feed of sorts, if you like.
It makes sense to organize somewhat things that you actually want to read, but I'm not…
how do you decide when to follow someone?
For me it’s about control, I’m open to seeing stuff that I didn’t explicitly follow, but I want to have the option to go see only stuff I follow. And see clearly the difference if both are mixed in a feed.
How I decide when to follow someone is exactly how I decide in real life if I want to see someone again: not how sure how, but very sure I want to be able to decide.
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