• Overzeetop@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    IKR? The massive influx of near-zero-friction signups is bound to create a large userbase of new/shiny window shoppers who quickly lose interest. I’ve got a couple of friends who seem to be attempting to create a presence there, but otherwise it’s a terrible feed. Of course it’s a terrible feed for me because I’ve done jack-shit on instagram and the algorithm is just throwing stuff at my wall to see what sticks. I’ve got ladies with large asses in spandex, some quote-meme spammers, and Jair Bolsonaro filling up my feed - that’s just a fucking dumpster fire.

    I’ll keep the app (properly sandboxed) but I doubt I’ll interact with it any more than mastodon or Post - which is monthly at best. I’d say that I dropper Twitter last year, but really I dropped it a decade ago as being useless as both a location for discourse and a source for, well, anything of interest to me.

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      1 year ago

      Honestly, I’m surprised the algorithm doesn’t start with more benign stuff. The best tuned algorithms start with low-controversy popular content, like pictures of cats, then slowly as it learns about the user begins introducing personal interests and rage bait depending on what the user interacts with.

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        Yeah, that really is pretty surprising. Haven’t used Threads myself since I’m in the EU and I have zero interest in it, but this is pretty normal social media stuff. I’d understand it if Meta was some “two people and a dog” company, but it’s Meta. I figure that a nontrivial amount of corners was cut, considering they couldn’t even launch in the EU