This is still ongoing for some users if their sub is anything to go by.
404 write up: https://www.404media.co/instagram-error-turned-reels-into-neverending-scroll-of-murder-gore-and-violence/
So this stuff is always on the platform? Why the fuck?
zucks personal zuckerbank
It wasn’t that long ago that the world almost ground to a halt because some people saw Janet Jackson’s breast.
Now we have this, and there will be zero consequences.
She didn’t deserve the hate for an accident that wasn’t even caused by her.
One more reason I’ll never use Meta social media ever again. I’m not surprised
Lemmy has plenty of porn and violence. You quitting here?
That’s a pretty facetious reply. Lemmy has tons of ways of curating your feeds and that’s one of its big strengths in my opinion.
This isn’t about seeing the occasional bit of NSFW material (which I still see occasionally on my Lemmy feed, despite having blocked a bunch of NSFW communities). This latest Instagram debacle involved people’s entire feeds being full of not just pornography, but also heavily NSFL gore stuff.
However, the real crux of this issue is clear when I imagine how I’d feel if a problem like this happened with Lemmy — I’d be unhappy, but I wouldn’t flee the platform, because I trust various admins to not bullshit me about what had happened and what was going to be done in future. Meta has burned through any goodwill it might’ve once had, and the only thing that’s transparent about them is their bullshit
Better get off the internet then if porn and violence is too much to handle.
It was definitely a good development to let social media operators make automated “recommendations based on what you seem to like” instead of, you know, letting users decide manually what they want to see, amirite… /s
I find the algorithms spot on. Zero need to optimize around an edge case/zero day.
