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Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image 🚨 Important update about my latest #WSocial article 👀 A user on #ATproto cracked the code and came up with a reasonable explanation for the made up number of comments on W Social's homepage. The number next to the speech bubble (comment icon) are an "engagement metric": the sum of boosts and likes. It all makes sense now! https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/ (scroll down to the end of the article for the update)

Facebook Wrestles With the Features It Used to Define Social Networking (Published 2021)

Likes and shares made the social media site what it is. Now, company documents show, it’s struggling to deal with their effects.

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A personalized algorithmic feed based on your likes. It finds people who liked the same posts as you, and shows you what else they've liked recently. https://foryou.club

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AT friends #7: @zzstoatzz.io (aka nate!) - Jake Simonds's Blog

informal chats with people building cool stuff in the open social world

Bluesky feed engagement — image-count analysis

The left chart tiers authors by actual follower count (at analysis time). The right chart tiers authors by median likes per post — a proxy for effective reach. Interesting divergence: under the follower definition, medium-size accounts show no 4-img penalty; under median-engagement, the pattern is different.