- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
If Lemmy/Pixelfed/Masto can’t capitalize on this we fucked up.
EDIT: realized it might be email/paywalled. In short, the IG algorithm started showing a huge number of gruesome murder videos to random users for seemingly no reason.
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Instagram is so awful. I go to search and it’s filled with AI girls and cosplay/bikini/lingerie girls. I don’t follow any of those kinds of accounts.
This was already posted here, and the original post has a paywall bypass link
Doing the lords work and I appreciate you!
Doing the lords work would probably be to support 404 for doing the lords work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Amen!
apparently the instagram subreddit had alot of posts abt this (source timeworks)
My mother doesn’t use Instagram, but she’s been getting videos on Facebook of people in shootouts/duels/armed robberies/etc, apparently from a brazilian (or at least Portuguese speaking) page, usually ending with someone dead.
Thanks, I hate it (Suno song generator)
I’m just happy ig is letting porn through. Cooters and hooters out and about is an indicator of a healthy social media environment
That explains a lot for my feed. I’ve been getting more fights, and a lot more republican propaganda than I had ever in the past. I usually just close the app and wait 15 minutes before trying again, which usually “resets” my feed.
Oh they always have a reason, and it’s extremely unethical
I posted this in the other link, from the article:
In an email, a Meta spokesperson told 404 Media “We have fixed an error that caused some users to see content in their Instagram Reels feed that should not have been recommended. We apologize for the mistake.” They said that the problem does not have anything to do with Meta’s recent announcement that it would loosen some content moderation rules.
To prove that this was actually happening, I sent Meta six links to graphic reels. These included two videos of people getting shot in the face, a video of a dead body with no context or obvious news value, a person getting lit on fire, the account called “PeopleDeadDaily,” and the tower of terror video. None of these videos have been deleted.
One of the many problems preventing people from actually holding Meta to account for any of this is that everyone’s feed is so incredibly personalized. Like I said, because we report on the darker corners of the internet, my Instagram feed is full of horrific things on a daily basis, which is probably not everyone’s experience.
What the hell is the tower of terror video?
For anyone not familiar (assuming you’re being serious here) the tower of terror is a ride based on a movie where you’re essentially in a simulated free-falling elevator. No seatbelts or safety inside the box but my understanding is that they are held to the same safety standards as other roller coasters. I legitimately can’t tell if this is about the ride or a real free falling elevator.
Any time a video is known by its title instead of a description, it’s better not to seek it out.
Now I’m intrigued.
It’s described in the article, got to it from one of the other links on lemmy. It’s the older tower of terror smaller carnival rides. The ones that are like 20-40 seats around a central pole and the seats alternate between going up and down the pole at as rapid a pace as that much weight can be cheaply moved.
The video in question is about someone falling off of it.
Not even a cycle ago I wrote a long post about optional (pluggable, like you can choose different sources of weather in some applet or of exchange rates in some personal finances application ; except unlike these, you’d have to query such for every post your client application should display or consider banned) moderation authorities in a hypothetical social media system.
I keep fucking forgetting 404 media is a legit news source and I’m not actually looking at a parody news/onion style community.
Named like one too
Too busy defederating and not making frictionless account migration work so no we’re only going to get a trickle while big tech rasputin luls rhe refugees with pied pipe
Zuckerberg is trying to learn what make HUMANS tic, so he can better communicate with organic lifeforms.
Just stop using it. Try sometimes else, you may like it. 🤷
Or nothing else. Get a fulfilling hobby, and you’ll probably find your life more meaningful.
This happened to a bunch of people yesterday, I ended up being one of them and my feed turned into absolute insanity, now it’s back to shitposts
