Understanding Social Media Recommendation Algorithms

supriyo-biswas · on March 10, 2023

For people leaning more towards the CS side of things, there is a description of the algorithms used and the weights used towards the end of it. As someone trying to build similar systems (not social media websites FWIW), it was quite instructive.

groffee · on March 10, 2023

I don't think I've ever read so much nonsensical word vomit in my life.

And I say that as someone who owns and operates a bunch of (relatively) successful social media websites.

> The set of content processing algorithms is relatively fluid as new types of content become prominent and new algorithmic capabilities emerge. The set of content propagation algorithms is relatively stable.

This is the wrong way round as well. Content processing is stable, but it's the 'content propagation algorithms' that change a lot of the time.

And using the word 'algorithm' more than 200 times literally just makes it lose its meaning.