Carl T. Bergstrom
Thinking to myself this morning “Threads can’t be as bad as I recall…”
First post in my feed: Instagram influencer with a cup of coffee watching the sunrise from her balcony in a $1000/night hotel built with slave labor in a country where women can’t drive, telling me about how she has discovered that the secret to life is learning to savor the little things.
No, lady, apparently the secret to life is to be born rich, white, beautiful, and oblivious.
Anyway, that’s enough Threads for 2024.
Mrs Cloudy
@vfrmedia @o_simardcasanova @ct_bergstrom does it not just swing the way users want it to by their choice of who to follow?
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
@o_simardcasanova @ct_bergstrom
or they are boosting all the right wing staff like X (I did see a claim that some folk were deliberately going to Threads because Mastodon generally swings very left wing)
Olivier Simard-Casanova 🦋
@vfrmedia @ct_bergstrom I don’t know. I see a lot of very angry, and very unproductive, political-ish trash on my feed.
Olivier Simard-Casanova 🦋
@ct_bergstrom Their algorithmic feed is just trash
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
@o_simardcasanova @ct_bergstrom
I suspect the "anti-covid disinformation" part of the algorithm is being used to hide any "bad news" (such as in depth discussions about the environment or politics) and push this bullshit "feel good" type of post..
Mrs Cloudy
@vfrmedia @o_simardcasanova @ct_bergstrom I know. That's my point. If folk don't like what they're seeing on here, they can do their own tailoring.
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
@CloudyMrs @o_simardcasanova @ct_bergstrom
The non-Meta Fediverse does work in exactly this way, but Threads/X and other commercial networks use opaque algorithms intended to serve their advertisers by providing segments of people that can be easily marketed to..
Mrs Cloudy
@ct_bergstrom @o_simardcasanova @CassandraZeroCovid @vfrmedia I'm not talking about Threads. I'm talking about here.
CassandraZeroCovid
@CloudyMrs @vfrmedia @o_simardcasanova @ct_bergstrom
"does it not just swing the way users want it to by their choice of who to follow?"
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Carl T. Bergstrom
@o_simardcasanova @CassandraZeroCovid @CloudyMrs @vfrmedia FWIW I don’t follow anyone on threads, my Instagram account follows on bird photographers, and I don’t have a Facebook account.
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