"making sense of the digital mind"

"The process of identity formation has become so externalized"

"its like a buzzfeed quiz: we like to have things that tell us things about ourselves"

"the process of identity formation has become very externalized"

reciprocal relationship with the Feed

"do you think there's such a thing as algorithms being generous?"

viewership as a form of generosity
attention economy

"the unreliability [of the TT algorithm] doesn't feel generous"
"i think its hard to construct an algorithm that feels generous without an element of randomness"

the little sounds on tiktok almost become prayers that each person has their own relationship to

algorithm — fear of the shadowban: fear of punishment

"shadowban"

People talk about the algorithm as if they are being punished

Intense sense of algorithm as higher power

++ algorithm as supernatural deity & black box (in tech?)

– leslie