I’d just like to add another possible contributing factor for increased outrage (which seems to me very plausible):
Social media services probably use machine learning to maximize the “time-spent” metric (i.e. how much time users spend browsing), and they’re probably gradually getting better at this as they’re collecting more data. It’s plausible that for a lot of users, the more they’re outraged the more time they tend to spend browsing. Therefore, feed-ranking algorithms make those users outraged, with increasing efficiency.
I’d just like to add another possible contributing factor for increased outrage (which seems to me very plausible):
Social media services probably use machine learning to maximize the “time-spent” metric (i.e. how much time users spend browsing), and they’re probably gradually getting better at this as they’re collecting more data. It’s plausible that for a lot of users, the more they’re outraged the more time they tend to spend browsing. Therefore, feed-ranking algorithms make those users outraged, with increasing efficiency.