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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by mgraczyk on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @01:39AM (#22613944)
No, having worked on explore sourcing and ranking I can tell you with certainty Instagram does not do the same thing.
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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by PunchTornado on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @09:19AM (#22616285)
new account on instagram, click explore, there are people there, nobody ugly.

search for any tag that has mainly people like beach or hiking, all accounts are from very beautiful people with lots of followers.

your algorithm promotes people with more followers and likes, which are bound to be more beautiful people. Unless you avoid any interest in tags related to people and see only beautiful bunnies, not ugly bunnies, your feed will be only beautiful creatures.

I don't know how you can deny that.

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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by scarmig on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @03:36AM (#22614432)
Implementation is different, but passes all the same test cases.
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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by mgraczyk on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @04:19AM (#22614633)
Instagram explore is actually pretty good at becoming personalized based on usage. Here's mine.

https://assets.opentoken.com/sha256/yhEqWEExzLtoLZ_fBRrGsyOD...

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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by Summershard on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @06:36AM (#22615190)
Maybe it works that way, because users prefer to follow pretty people.
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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by PunchTornado on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @09:20AM (#22616304)
the question is having an algorithm do that (suppresing ugly and therefore unpopular users/photo) is different than having a moderator do it?
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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by cvlasdkv on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @10:24AM (#22616968)
yes because it's a choice.
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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by lenkite on Thursday March 19, 2020 @07:49AM (#22626576)
No, it does not. View Cats on Instagram and you will see Cats on Instagram.
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