@aharoni oof. That's dark.
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Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 14:04:47 JST Evan Prodromou -
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Amir E. Aharoni (aharoni@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 14:04:55 JST Amir E. Aharoni Instagram showed me a Threads post that has a screenshot of someone else's bio and invites readers to block and report that account because that account's owner reports people pro-Palestinian accounts, and also because "it's clear from the bio that the owner is a piece of shit".
The bio in the screenshot had a name, a job (in some place I haven't heard of), and an indication that the owner is a Jew.
I wonder which part makes the owner a "piece of shit".
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Amir E. Aharoni (aharoni@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 14:05:02 JST Amir E. Aharoni This is a Reel that Facebook suggested to me.
Much like Israelis should disavow expressions of support from "alt right", "identitarians", apocalyptic "Christian Zionists", "race realists", Hindutva activists, etc., Palestinians should disavow support from sex offenders. And Facebook's algorithms should not promote their content.
Ritter is an actual convicted sex offender. (And a "columnist" in Russian government's "newspapers". Who else would host him?)
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Amir E. Aharoni (aharoni@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 14:05:09 JST Amir E. Aharoni As for the quality of these strangers' posts... Well, they are mostly junk. Both for and against Israel. Threads is not the place to seek balance or nuance.
Nevertheless, there is a LOT of that junk. And I do wonder why.
Who DOES use it? I never reply to those strangers, but at least some other people do. Is the embedding into Instagram of Threads posts that might interest people enough to provoke them to reply? Or is there something bigger?
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Amir E. Aharoni (aharoni@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 14:05:17 JST Amir E. Aharoni On the other hand, I do follow a small number of Jewish accounts, although most of them are not political. And my phone is set to Hebrew. So okay, maybe these are the reasons Meta's algorithms prioritize strangers' commentary for and against Israel, but it's not actually *good*. I'm on social networks mostly for local connections, old friends, Wikimedians, and linguists. I want get political commentary from real (online) newspapers. Am I a dying breed?
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Amir E. Aharoni (aharoni@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 14:05:24 JST Amir E. Aharoni So Threads doesn't have a lot of things that interest me, and I therefore don't even open it. Then how do I see these strangers' post? Because they are embedded into Instagram.
I don't know why am I shown posts on this topic, however. Surely it's not the only thing people write on Threads about. What did I do to indicate that I'm interested in it? My phone number is American, and on Instagram I mostly follow Wikimedians and musicians.
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Amir E. Aharoni (aharoni@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 14:05:32 JST Amir E. Aharoni I created an account on Instagram and then on Threads. I occasionally post on Instagram. I don't post anything on Threads. It does kind of look a lot like Twitter, but almost without anyone I know. It has some celebrities and journalists, but I haven't seen any linguists or Wikimedians yet, which is okay, because I find more and more of them here on Mastodon.
Threads, like Twitter, does have a lot of strangers posting opinions about Israel, though.
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Amir E. Aharoni (aharoni@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 14:05:40 JST Amir E. Aharoni Some observations.
I already wrote it here, but I just can't stop being surprised about finding more and more Israelis who posted super-radical leftist stuff before October 7, and began posting super-Zionist stuff after it.
It was immediately clear that this event is very different from all the previous escalations that happened every year or two. I immediately expected a more brutal military response. But not such a big change of these folks' opinions.
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