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Since Youtube made that change I found its comments much, much more pleasant. Meta made an early decision with Threads to deprioritize political content which t
by Karrot_Kream 1y ago
Since Youtube made that change I found its comments much, much more pleasant. Meta made an early decision with Threads to deprioritize political content which they only recently went back on (now it's an opt-out slider I think) which did do a decent job of keeping the network lighter than Twitter but also made the network a bit less intellectual than Twitter or Bluesky.
- beeflet 1y agoWhen you introduce such a high level of moderation and ranking what you get are a load of reddit style "funny guys" that are desperately trying to be noticed. I prefer random comments without ranking, because it gives you a more truthful view of public sentiment. The force that aggressively filters comments is the same force that takes away the dislike button. It is all about controlling public opinion. Everything is good all of the time, and everyone is in a controlled demographic where they are insulated from new ideas that might make them difficult to advertise to.