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458: A High Speed Train Goes Past

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How Facebook Scaled to the Size of WhatsApp

I'm really looking forward to this proposed following feed. Because I don't follow a ton of people, and so I'm seeing like quite a lot of like content that they want me to see. There is a lot of engagement thirst on threads in a way I have not experienced on a social platform before. Like it's a sucker unlike I don't know why you're showing me this,. But now I am seeing things that are related to my interests, but not my choice to follow them. And I feel like sometimes I'm not seeing the posts from people that follow because they're giving me too much algorithm content. It's wild how they've scaled to the size that they have so

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