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Threads is available as a web page now, but you need to sign up on the app first, so I guess I won't be using Threads.

I think it's also time to give up on Instagram for a while. It suggested an account I had blocked the day before, and I've had other technical issues with it.
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Old 08-27-2023, 09:42 PM
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Enshittification comes to mind as the longer I browse Instagram reels the smaller the content becomes and the more comments appear around the video as it gets wrung through spam accounts.

The Instagram reels algorithm is just so damn aggressive. Occasionally I’ve enjoyed zoning out and having insta put moving pictures and sounds in front of my face, but it doesn’t take long till I have to pay attention again to cull the experience.

Yes I do like 15-20 second clips of absurd baseball plays such as a Japanese batter hitting the ball through a tiny opening in the stadium roof, no I don’t really like baseball, oh god why is everything now baseball!
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Reels is terrible. All of them are too short - like I didn't even have the time to read the caption on the photo, or the video cuts off well before it's actually finished. Why present me with a short video if you're not going to show me the whole thing? I dislike Reels enough that I refuse to learn if there's ways to fix it.

Then I was having a problem where the feed wouldn't scroll past some posts - it would force focus back to something earlier in the feed.

The experience is poor in general, but at least I could find a decent number of people I wanted to follow on that platform. Maybe I'll just sit out a while, let the social media upheaval happen, and then think about it again.
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Old 08-27-2023, 11:38 PM
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Get ready to hate it more, as from what I understand that’s on purpose.
The algorithm heavily favors completed videos, even if they’re only a few seconds long, so sometimes letting a few of the same types of reels complete in a row will just shunt you down the path of more more more, even if the total watch time was only a few seconds.
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Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported on a quiet policy change that Meta, Facebook’s parent company, made last year that allows for election denial content in paid political ads. The report cited free speech as a major basis for Meta updating its political ad policy in August 2022 to allow advertisements on Facebook and Instagram that question the legitimacy of past elections, including the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
This means advertisers can now claim past elections were “rigged” or “stolen,” though they’re still prohibited from questioning the legitimacy of ongoing and future elections. Put simply, this new ad policy enables Meta to profit directly off of a lie that nearly destroyed American democracy.
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Nothing has made me close facebook faster than facebook itself.

Open Facebook,
-Friend post from today.
--Garbage Meme
--Garbage meme
-Friend post from before Christmas.
--Fake DIY
--Out of context image
-Friend post from before Christmas... again.
--Garbage Meme.
--Garbage Meme.
--Garbage Meme.
Close Facebook.

It's always been kind of shitty but it really feels bad these days, interacting with anything on facebook that isn't my friend feed makes me feel worse for having done so.
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It's always been kind of shitty but it really feels bad these days, interacting with anything on facebook that isn't my friend feed makes me feel worse for having done so.
It's always been shitty.
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Nothing has made me close facebook faster than facebook itself.

Open Facebook,
-Friend post from today.
--Garbage Meme
--Garbage meme
-Friend post from before Christmas.
--Fake DIY
--Out of context image
-Friend post from before Christmas... again.
--Garbage Meme.
--Garbage Meme.
--Garbage Meme.
Close Facebook.

It's always been kind of shitty but it really feels bad these days, interacting with anything on facebook that isn't my friend feed makes me feel worse for having done so.
I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I WORK REALLY HARD ON THOSE MEMES.
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Nothing has made me close facebook faster than facebook itself.

Open Facebook,
-Friend post from today.
--Garbage Meme
--Garbage meme
-Friend post from before Christmas.
--Fake DIY
--Out of context image
-Friend post from before Christmas... again.
--Garbage Meme.
--Garbage Meme.
--Garbage Meme.
Close Facebook.

It's always been kind of shitty but it really feels bad these days, interacting with anything on facebook that isn't my friend feed makes me feel worse for having done so.
I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I WORK REALLY HARD ON THOSE MEMES.
BEHIND EVERY SHITTY MEME IS A PERSON WHO TRIED TO MAKE YOU SMILE.


OR ANGRY.
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Or both


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Old 01-26-2024, 06:51 PM
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Heavily interconnected internet is a failed experiment,
Example #156

•User on Reddit posts question about truffles their dog keeps finding.
•Post makes front page and extends outside the foraging community.
•10 hours later the amount of trolling has caused the user to delete their username and abandon the post. It took less than a day from having an interesting question to being driven off the platform.

This is the modern internet. Where the only way to make google function is to type "on Reddit" and the only way to ask a question on reddit is with a burner account in case the angry trolls notice.

Mod noteFriendly mod chiming in, now that OP unfortunately deleted their user and abandoned the thread. Unfortunately for good reason - We have had to serve some bans and delete a bunch of nonsense comments.

As this post is getting attention outside of our subreddit r/foraging - If you are new here, please take a second and look into our rules before you make a comment. FYI we don't allow bad and overused jokes, trolls, harassment etc. So please be civil, when you join in the conversation.

My dog keeps finding truffles (PNW), can I rebury them? | Reddit post
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Now I am going to post about how my dog finds gold nuggets when we are on a walk, and "Can I just throw them back in the stream?'"
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