I think there is a flip side to the Twitter machine, one that counters the "interestingness" prompted innovation: Because the algorithm that constructs the feed is looking for things similar to (and perhaps a little far from, but not too far from) the things one found interesting... It seems to prompt people to create content on Twitter is that is actually "more of the same".... because it'll get shown on feeds that found that stuff interesting.
So, while I might choose to create ever-more-interesting pornography to get my posts to be "interesting" --- I might instead choose to create pornography that matches what I'm seeing trending - because I'll get swept up in the algo's thirst for things to show.
I think you can see this without too much squinting at one's feed: There are the "oh everyone has one of those posts" posts... and the "oh, that's a bit more extreme than I've seen before" posts.
While these complementary drives are certainly creating ever-more varied pornography... perhaps it's pronography more slanted to satisfy the algorithm, rather than what I might find interesting.
I think there is a flip side to the Twitter machine, one that counters the "interestingness" prompted innovation: Because the algorithm that constructs the feed is looking for things similar to (and perhaps a little far from, but not too far from) the things one found interesting... It seems to prompt people to create content on Twitter is that is actually "more of the same".... because it'll get shown on feeds that found that stuff interesting.
So, while I might choose to create ever-more-interesting pornography to get my posts to be "interesting" --- I might instead choose to create pornography that matches what I'm seeing trending - because I'll get swept up in the algo's thirst for things to show.
I think you can see this without too much squinting at one's feed: There are the "oh everyone has one of those posts" posts... and the "oh, that's a bit more extreme than I've seen before" posts.
While these complementary drives are certainly creating ever-more varied pornography... perhaps it's pronography more slanted to satisfy the algorithm, rather than what I might find interesting.