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hcarvalhoalves 8 months ago

I login to Instagram and I see:

- Ad promoting "investment" platform with deep fakes of personalities

- Ad from radicalized politician promoting hate speech

- Semi-naked girl promoting their "other" social media (OnlyFans)

- Ad disguised as content of some dude promoting a random restaurant

I agree with Zuckerberg, it's not social media anymore. I don't see content from any friend, only scams.

arnaudsm 8 months ago | parent | next [-]

I've noticed that every single website that I enjoy on the internet is non-profit. Did we optimize for the wrong metric since the beginning?

hcarvalhoalves 8 months ago | parent [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

alok-g 8 months ago | parent [-]

Loved reading this. Thanks for sharing.

frollogaston 8 months ago | parent | prev [-]

My YouTube account had recommendations for music because that's what I use it for. When they launched YT Shorts (basically their version of TikTok), that section was 75% thirst trap videos, albeit still music-related. Like "cool violin solo" but played by a girl sorta pointing the camera up her skirt in the thumbnail. I never watched those or anything similar, but I guess they knew I was male and wanted to hook me.

selfhoster 8 months ago | parent [-]

I dislike Shorts with a passion.

callc 8 months ago | parent [-]

If you use Firefox, try https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recom...

Works great.