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The Future Of Social Media

The Future Of Social Media

Recommendation vs. community

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Sep 17, 2022
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The Future Of Social Media
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Let’s face it. Social Media has a lot of issues.

Popular social networks struggle with bots, spam accounts, fake accounts, low-quality content, toxic behavior, and much more. All the while, it’s getting harder and harder to find content from people you care about in the sea of algorithm-driven recommendations.

Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and Twitter suffer from these problems, among many others.

Recommendation-based social media has overtaken community-based social media.

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