In an attention economy the thing that pays is capturing attention - a terrifyingly finite thing that determines our lived experiences.
Rewarding people who are good that this is a compounding mistake.
Rewarding people who are good that this is a compounding mistake.
I genuinely think the future of Facebook, LinkedIn, et al could look very much like just bot farms generating bullshit at scale for other bots to consume and inflate the metrics on while everyone actually interested in... anything really, sails off to greener pastures that have revenue streams that don't require this.
To be clear, my ideal future would not be this, if for no other reason than the catastrophic electrical and bandwidth being wasted to pretend anyone on LinkedIn's best ranking posts understands a single thing under the sun, but I consider this a solid #2 option.