Bruno DC
Bruno DC
@bcast.bsky.social
European official working in Economics. Views are my own and do not commit my employer.
individual or sphere.

We've been asking the wrong questions so ZuMuAn have plenty of reasons to be mad.
January 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Regulators have not focused, as they do for other products and services, on whether the wall delivers what it says it does: does it show the most frequent post (even in a geography or social space) or does it show some other probability distribution?

This is measurable across the wall and per
January 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Finally, flooding the wall with adverts is so 1950s - what about information from review and actual intention to buy guiding what adverts we see?
January 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
shows what is most likely to keep the viewer on to the next ad, mediocratising speech (simple words, unambiguous meaning) because that's what enables easy and thus more messages from advertisers too? In other words, is it that the funding method is capturing how/what content is produced/viewed?
January 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
function. In other words, is it that we see the most frequent content or is it that we see the content that manipulated the algorithm (bots, SEO and so on). The wall is not agnostic to what adheres to it
- is it not that the median of the probability function dominates speech such that the wall
January 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
There are three main issues, at least, that have not been keeping regulators busy:

- platforms became an object, not a function: the wall is in theory agnostic to content, in contrast with previous media
- how does financing the wall (ensuring viewers to ads) influence the algorithm's distribution
January 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
consensus) and a prolonged trial and test sorting of strategies.

What they suggest is halfway to stunned social norms, defined by who (paying or illegally) propagates their social strategy.

It is the absence of debate and the destruction of the internet.

@eff.org
January 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
who wouldn't want to make themselves better off by mimicking another?

What Musk and Zuckerberg and Thiel and Andreesen are doing is purposely - or mistakenly - confounding what results from their business interest (that it is possible to pay for overwhelming broadcast and create the illusion of
January 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Social norms do evolve, so we understand it, as tried and tested social strategies spread.

The danger with social media is the illusion - via bots and paid propagation - that certain strategies are more successful than others. Assuming normally ignorant individuals (I'm there too) and uncertainty,
January 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Worth noticing.
November 30, 2024 at 11:30 AM