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I feel much the same way. Facebook tried to sell me on threads by showing me an ad with 2.5 threads visible: one of them was clearly a racist post that I didn't
by rconti 3y ago
I feel much the same way. Facebook tried to sell me on threads by showing me an ad with 2.5 threads visible: one of them was clearly a racist post that I didn't want to see the conclusion of, the other was clearly a liberal outrage thread about how much money Jeff Bezos makes that I ALSO didn't want to see the end of, and the third was a mostly-obscured post by a ceramic artisan I follow. They don't seem to have any idea who they're advertising to if they think these things will get a positive reaction out of me, rather than just closing it and marking it as "show less like this." For that matter, the vaunted algorithm is not very smart if it can't figure out that I only engage with reels and stories about 1% of the time, vs the content I actually like to engage with.
It's like, these social media companies wrote a SINGLE outrage-farming algorithm that they push on everyone's feeds without regard for whether it works on individuals or not.
This all is why, despite it getting worse, I use FB more than the other platforms. Actual content posted by actual humans I actually know with their actual names under them. Not some pseudonym where I can't remember if it's an IRL friend or some internet rando I follow (or why I follow them), a bunch of emojis, contextless junk, and clickbait outrage farming.
- alangibson 3y ago> It's like, these social media companies wrote a SINGLE outrage-farming algorithm They kind of did. The optimal solution of 'just show rage bait' can't take all that long to discover.
- blurrybird 3y agoThis experience always shocks me because it’s not aligned with my own. Even on Twitter I never saw that junk. I followed almost exclusively tech folk, AWS community heros, NodeJS developers, Architects and Platform Engineers. I’m not even a developer, but I followed them to be exposed more to that topic. As a result, my feed was 99.9% technical content and product management content. I got the same result in under an hour with Threads too - just mute every. Single. Thing. That you don’t want to see for an hour and then kill and re-launch the app. You’ll never see politics again.
- k12sosse 3y agoDo you spend the majority of your waking hours dedicated to ensuring all tracking (small-t as in habits or content enjoyment, not location tracking or government chip implants) is gone from your life? A lot of people who do get stuck in this revolving door of trash which is targeting those users. Sort of like: you spend your life trying to not be targeted, only to be targeted as the group that never wants to be targeted.
- rconti 3y agoNope, not at all. Minimal effort in fact.
- kahnclusions 3y agoEven if you mainly follow tech folks, there are many who get very political…
- u320 3y agoYeah I follow some music profiles on Instagram and all Threads gave me was their music stuff replaced with their takes on Israel/Gaza.
- alangibson 3y ago> just mute every. Single. Thing. 'just' is working hard there. After the 20th attempt at avoiding crap posts most people just give up.
- u320 3y agoI was in the process of doing that when I came up with an simpler and a lot more reliable method: Deleting the Threads profile.
- Exoristos 3y agoSo, a poor-man's LinkedIn.
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