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>>6568695
It really makes you wonder what kind of nefarious algo code is in effect under the surface. We really don’t know how the algorithm decides who will have visibility and who won’t. Is it location-based? Does it decide based upon a built up web profile of its user developed over time by scraped data of web searches, keystrokes, political opinions, economic bracket, etc? For example, your web profile might peg you as someone who supports trump based on videos viewed, google searches, visited websites (like 4chan), etc, and this info slots you into a category where you are automatically silenced whenever you tweet/post on ig/YouTube etc forever and it’s all based on a data-scraped profile of information collected, collated and shared around over a decade of web search information from your ip address. Put simply, you could be getting memory-holed just for your beliefs. It’s not schizo to believe something like this drives algorithm reach.

Algorithms on video games have reached a similar level of cynicism, which is why I’m suspect. It will slot you into games with better players just to keep you playing longer. It will nerf your ability to win by giving you progressively harder competitors. It keeps all of your play data on file to manipulate your play experience and the games you’ll be allowed to play in. It used to be that you joined a game based on highest ping. Now it’s a whole system bent on emotionally manipulating its user into playing longer and spending money.