Instead of a continuous stream of new content and notifications, it atomizes the cycle of creation and consumption into a once-per-day rhythm

In addition, perhaps there is a general limit to how far a single feed of random content arranged algorithmically can go before we suffer pure consumption exhaustion. Perhaps seeing curated snapshots from everyone will finally push us all to the breaking point of jealousy and FOMO and, across a large enough number of users, an asymptote will emerge... See more

All the recommendation systems you see at Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, etc. have a similar high-level architecture.

They have a layered architecture that looks something like the following

1. Retrieval - Narrow down the candidates of what to show a user to thousands of potential items


2. First Stage Ranking - Apply a low-level ranking system to

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