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icedrift t1_j1bmdzb wrote

Congratulations! you've just discovered **Algorithmic Recommendation Systems**. Behind the scenes, Reddit and every other social media website takes note of the rate of engagement and recommends only the most likely posts to get you to interact. Considering this topic got you to make your first ever post to this sub, I'd consider those algorithms a success.

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Georg_Simmel t1_j1bncw2 wrote

Exactly. The only reason I saw this post was because the algorithm boosted it. There was definitely a recent change to the algorithm though because my feed is crowded with low-effort discussion posts (and people complaining about them!).

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Tamagotchi41 OP t1_j1bn2d8 wrote

A success in making me want to Unsub? I guess if that's how they measure success 😂

Edit: if it's pushing the most popular why am I not seeing the top posts when sorted by "Hot" on the sub itself?

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icedrift t1_j1bop1b wrote

Well it did make you post. These systems aren't exactly looking ahead they just want the max amount of engagement at any given time.

As for that edit they don't push the most popular posts they push posts that have the highest change of retaining your attention. At many social media sites (maybe reddit but idk), those recommendations are unique to each user based on the absurd amount of data they collect. Only a few engineers at reddit would know for sure.

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