Comment by latexr
> If you take away the time component, posters compete on quality instead.
That is verifiably false simply by looking at the state of social media. What they compete on is engagement bait, and the biggest of them all is rage.
By your logic, social media would be a panacea of quality posts by now, but it’s going to shit with fast-paced lies. Quick dopamine hits prevail, not “quality”.
> I'm thinking of something like "algorithm as a service," which would be aligned with your interests and tuned for your personal goals.
So, another service dedicated to tracking you and mining your data. I can already smell the enshittifaction.
I meant quality as in a sense of quality-vs-quantity dillema, not objective quality. In other words, posters will start optimizing individual posts instead of optimizing their amount.
[edit] and indeed, this only solves the problem of excessive posting, this is just the begining.