Steph Smith: Social Media Shifted From Social Graphs to Interest Graphs
Steph Smith · AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng · Nov 9, 2022 · at 9:34
Steph Smith, host of the a16z Podcast, discusses broad shifts in social media platform architecture with digital creator Karen X Cheng.
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“Social media is not really social anymore in a way. It's kind of gone from the social graph where you followed your friends and your family, and then now it's an interest graph where you follow just things that this algorithm is serving you.”
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