The more I look at platforms like Twitter and Facebook, the more I start liking the WeChat “anti-viral” timeline concept. Posts on your WeChat timeline show only likes from your friends. This applies even on posts from other people - you can only see likes on those posts from your friends, not any of that person’s friends. Boom - no more platform manipulation, since everything on your timeline is 100% driven by your friends.
Unfortunately the Chinese government can and will censor posts on these feeds, which is made super easy by how slow things usually spread on that platform - but that’s a different issue entirely. I’m not advocating literally switching to WeChat - just that the concept feels at once far more “social” and rather less prone to certain kinds of manipulation.
Unfortunately the Chinese government can and will censor posts on these feeds, which is made super easy by how slow things usually spread on that platform - but that’s a different issue entirely. I’m not advocating literally switching to WeChat - just that the concept feels at once far more “social” and rather less prone to certain kinds of manipulation.