Okay… So @abucci@anthony.buc.ci @eaplmx@twtxt.net and @justamoment@twtxt.net … Here’s what I know and have experienced first-hand… – When I worked at Facebook™ (now called Meta™ but still own and operate this horrible thing called “Facebook”), we had inside information on how the company (used to be, now just a product) “operate” and “function”. The core idea behind Facebook was not about connecting people together (like they claim publicly), or to produce feed Internet services (like they did over in Africa and other poorer nations) – No sir 😅 – The whole point of Facebook™? Simple.
To increase engagement.
How? Simple. Powerful (lots) of algorithms ate place build huge “graphs” of information about people, relationships and interactions. Huge powerful multi-Gigawatt sized data centres used to run massive machine learning models to “learn” and “understand” every aspect of its users base (you know, the same users that believe that Facebook™ was/is FREE 🤣)