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.
@ct_bergstrom Their algorithmic feed is just trash
@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..
@vfrmedia @ct_bergstrom I don’t know. I see a lot of very angry, and very unproductive, political-ish trash on my feed.
@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)
@vfrmedia @o_simardcasanova @ct_bergstrom does it not just swing the way users want it to by their choice of who to follow?
@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..
@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.
@CloudyMrs @o_simardcasanova @ct_bergstrom
when/if more Threads posts start appearing on Fediverse is where the boundaries (of what "here" is) could get blurred, but there are at least many instances which actively reject Threads traffic so hopefully some users realise they are missing a ton of stuff (or that there are ads/sponsored posts on their feeds which don't appear on the original Fediverse..)