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I suppose that in context that's what my comment would imply, but it's not really what I meant.

for me it was this weird guy on public access in New England who made this weird diagram that reminded us of D&D. He smoked a pipe and we called him Dr. Bob, but I have no idea who he really was.

I suppose some programs might have done that? The way it starts with the oldest center-right and more narrow is unusual, plus the names of the authors being separated by long distances from what they wrote. I’m more familiar with a hierarchy that starts with the oldest on top left and narrows and expands towards the right, like essentially every web forum does.

Huh, I wonder what the issue is. I e clicked on many of them and never had a problem with the video starting, though I suppose I’ve heard there were problems recently (as in perhaps YouTube has been hampering it).

Tumblr sure has a fucked up threading format.

Anyway, that’s a normal amount of beef if there were other toppings. For a pizza with nothing else you’d probably want to specify super-extra beef.

I can't handle this . i'm going to sleep.

The two combined have about 1.2 billion, which is surely more than the old owners of Casa Bonita.

Sure, they don't really care if the user is happy as long as the user subscribes or views ads. In the Facebook experience I listed in another post, Facebook doesn't care if you're happy. They might make more money if you're frustrated or angry, as long as you don't stop using the site. This type of customer abuse is easier for companies that have a monopolistic position.

The entire recommendation concept is such an obvious feedback loop. "When we show you items from a-e from a set ranging from a-z, butd never anything from f-z, you click on something from a-e! So you must love those!" or "this post that has been on the front page for 10 hours is getting a lot of clicks! It must be because it's popular!"

How is it useful for them to play songs that someone is just going to skip and may encourage them to stop using the service though?

Facebook did that to me until it was finally what made me give up using the wretched site. I’d do everything I could to signal I wasn’t interested in politics. Block, unfollow, “show me less”, ignore. Then they’d come up with more of the same political content from someone on my friend list I’d never even heard of. Meanwhile it never showed me content from people I actually knew, like an actual friend or colleague could go on a vacation, get married, have a kid, and I’d only know from going to their page, while mean while my feed was endless bullshit political memes.

That's what I mean.