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the distribution thing is real but i think the deeper issue is that most people optimize for the wrong metric. they spend 4 hours making something “great” by their own standard and then wonder why a throwaway post did better.
the throwaway post worked because it was easy to react to. great content often doesn’t trigger a response, people just consume it and move on. the algorithm reads that as “not engaging” even if the person genuinely learned something.
