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   Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 10:29:22 JST Eugen Rochko

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   It's wild how social media outside of the fediverse has deteriorated. You have followers, but if your post doesn't please some opaque algorithm, they'll never see what you post. You have to avoid certain words to please the algorithm. If you refresh the page good luck finding the same posts again. And people put up with it.

   https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/16/instagram-limits-political-content-shadowban-election-posts/

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     DJGummikuh (djgummikuh@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 10:38:48 JST DJGummikuh

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     @Gargron I find it amazing also on YouTube. I watch some people that monitor the current war situations in ukraine and the middle east and they can't use the words "kill" or even "terrorist", "hamas", "hezbollah" and more without at least getting demonitized or blocked. It is complete bonkers and only going to get worse with every state in the world now taking shots at forbidding unwanted things

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     Marvel Chuck (marvelchuck@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 10:55:49 JST Marvel Chuck

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     Sepiroth X Villainous (sepirothx@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 11:48:02 JST Sepiroth X Villainous

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     @Gargron tsk tsk, the censorship

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     Cluster Fcku (clusterfcku@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 11:52:04 JST Cluster Fcku

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     @Gargron "put up with it"? I'd go a step further and say it doesn't matter for most. Social media provides the illusion of being heard, and can thus satisfy the narcissism and obsessions of billions.

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     Nitin Khanna (nitinkhanna@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 12:11:35 JST Nitin Khanna

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     @Gargron sounds like China. Meta is the Chinese Firewall of the rest-of-world.

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     Bebadefabo (bebadefabo@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 12:24:37 JST Bebadefabo

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     @Gargron if you voice an idea anywhere left of Ronald Reagan, you're shadow banned.

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     Olivia436 (olivia436@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 12:36:43 JST Olivia436

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     🐜 (antdude@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 13:05:23 JST 🐜

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     @Gargron vote

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     jamespthomas (jamespthomas@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 13:09:35 JST jamespthomas

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     @Gargron good luck finding the same posts again😦

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 13:18:28 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     ISTM that the algorithm is just automating the intolerance to dissenting views and trigger-happy blocking, that has become so prevalent in current society, even in the fediverse.
     people like to blame the algorithm for that, but what if that's backwards?
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     MFTech (greenorchids@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 13:49:20 JST MFTech

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     @Gargron

     Thank you for creating a space without vitriol. Gave us a soft landing when Musk turned Twitter into a cesspool…

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     Reese Grey (reesegrey@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 13:59:58 JST Reese Grey

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     I used to think the whole "the algorithm kills content" sentiment was super sensationalized until huge YouTubers started censoring words like "kill" "die" or even "gun" . Then TikTok people don't even write those words on their vids, but have to censor it like "k!LL" . Maybe I'm just a hag but it happened SO FAST like a switched flipped and weird censorship started just this year. Was it so much earlier? God I'm always so tardy to the party

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     Dave (dgentilli@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 14:44:17 JST Dave

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     @Gargron I've tried to convince FB connections to switch here. But I wonder how many saw my FB post with links to Mastodon and the Fediverse. :thaenkin:

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     David Blue ※ (davidblue@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 14:47:17 JST David Blue ※

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     @Gargron unpaywalled. :unarist: https://davidblue.wtf/drafts/2388D5FE-59A9-488D-BE0A-46050A838811

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     Elena Rossini ⁂ (_elena@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 14:48:20 JST Elena Rossini ⁂

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     @Gargron the article ends with these infuriating lines: « She’ll keep on posting, she says: “I’ll do a little yelling into the void.”
Unfortunately for our democracy, she doesn’t have a lot of other choices. »

     It’s such a missed opportunity not to mention the Fediverse and its chronological feeds / lack of opaque algorithms.

     Once I’m properly caffeinated I will write an email to Mr. Fowler and also post a comment on the article…

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     Mark Darbyshire (markdarb@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 15:09:24 JST Mark Darbyshire

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     @Gargron Worse than that, the page refreshes itself!

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     Stuart Crabtree (crab22@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 16:15:37 JST Stuart Crabtree

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     @Gargron but you don’t have to use it!

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     Steve (flying_saucers@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 17:52:56 JST Steve

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     @Gargron it's way more obscure than that. I follow an artist (stuz0r) who's art posts reach hardly anyone anymore, but their text posts trying to figure out why reach *everyone*

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     Andrew (serendip1959@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 18:42:52 JST Andrew

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     @Gargron

     They use the dead bird site because of freedom of speech but the dead bird site applies an algorithm that dictates what you see and who can see what you say.

     Crazy…

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     Quark Maker (quarkmaker@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 19:22:14 JST Quark Maker

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     @Gargron Well, as Willie Sutton famously said when asked why he robbed banks, "That's where the money is."

     Twitter, Instagram, etc., have really become influencer platforms. Facebook, too, though to a slightly lesser degree. Jack Dorsey's new Blue Sky (or whatever he's calling it) could become that as well.

     The face of what social media is has changed since the '00s; for the time being, I'd rather be here on Mastodon.

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     Free Online Income (onlineincomemoney@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 23:21:55 JST Free Online Income

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     @Gargron
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     The Animal and the Machine (taatm@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 23:37:37 JST The Animal and the Machine

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     • Christian Lawson-Perfect

     @Gargron
     Its nuts. It’s not social media, it’s big media exploiting. It’s toxic.

     I love Mastodon. Thank you and all those everywhere that made it happen.

     Thanks to my excellent host @christianp for Mathstodon.

     Thanks everyone who is here.

     Everyone Is Awesome!

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     GMcGath (gmcgath@liberdon.com)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 23:37:43 JST GMcGath

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     @Gargron The Post pulls an interesting trick to distort poll results. It takes a poll which says "20 percent of U.S. adults now regularly get news on the [Instagram] social network" and recasts it as "One in five American adults regularly get their news from Instagram."

     Adding the word "their" suggests IG is the primary or exclusive news source for 1 in 5. The poll only says that people "get news" from it.

     Poll distortion is a favorite journalistic game.

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     Thin Crust Tavern Cut (gregarcus@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 01:23:21 JST Thin Crust Tavern Cut

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     • Marvel Chuck

     @marvelchuck Good bye.

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     Kari'boka (kariboka@social.harpia.red)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 01:24:22 JST Kari'boka

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     • Nitin Khanna
     @nitinkhanna por summer child
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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 09:22:37 JST Eugen Rochko

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     @Paladin What?

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     Paladin :verified: :ak: (paladin@mastodon.nu)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 09:22:39 JST Paladin :verified: :ak:

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     @Gargron If you tolerate this, then your children will be next.

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     Sheru (she/her) (mshearthwitch@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 22:47:22 JST Sheru (she/her)

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     @Gargron One of the most absurd things to me is the power given to the algorithm over our language. The way it is changing, shaping and erasing words from our collective vocabulary.

     I'm curious to know if there's ever been quite this level of interference in language before.

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     Bebef 🦦🇪🇺🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚙🐼🥦🚩🏴 (bebef@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Oct-2024 14:25:28 JST Bebef 🦦🇪🇺🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚙🐼🥦🚩🏴

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     @Gargron People put up with wagon loads of BS, so no surprise here.

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 16:40:21 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Sozan

     @GRA3432 That's false.

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     Sozan (gra3432@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 16:40:22 JST Sozan

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     @Gargron Well, listen who's talking. On your main server people are getting hidden because they are posting for #Palestine .