๐Ÿงต Thread (3 posts) 2025-10-19

Which of the following is true: 1. We all hallucinated the post Elon reduction in links 2. Links used to be explicitly boosted 3. Nikita is lying

Quote tweet of @nikitabier

1 sub theories: we over indexed on stack being banned. Link posters/readers disproportionately left post Elon giving the illusion they were deboosted

2 sub theories: nonengagement metrics like following relationship used to have greater weight. Clicks used to count