Insight | The Scrolling Teacher
The algorithm forgets on purpose
Every social media platform runs on the same arithmetic. Fresh content displaces what came before it, and emotional content travels further than complex content from the first post.
The problem runs deeper than virality. Recency-weighted feeds have no mechanism to resurface an artefact whose moment has passed.
Depth does not simply lose the initial race. It disappears from the track entirely.
This insight examines how that structural design choice plays out, and what a deliberate reader can do about it.
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