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Re:How the new Threads app is made by Freedom2 on Friday July 07, 2023 @05:08PM (#36638318)
What is 'coombait'?
Re:How the new Threads app is made by the_lonely_road on Friday July 07, 2023 @05:14PM (#36638387)
Porn adjacent material. Technically SFW usually but not the kind of thing you want your coworkers seeing you look at.
Re:How the new Threads app is made by scarface_74 on Friday July 07, 2023 @05:21PM (#36638479)
And I don’t understand why that is the first thing that comes up on my Facebook feed when I scroll past reels.

I usually watch and like comedians when I am mindlessly scrolling.

Re:How the new Threads app is made by whiskeytuesday on Friday July 07, 2023 @05:12PM (#36638364)
What we used to call softcore pornography
Re:How the new Threads app is made by astrange on Friday July 07, 2023 @05:59PM (#36638839)
Pictures of your female friends at the beach.

If you leave Facebook for long enough and are a man, it'll start sending you notifications anytime a woman you follow posts something. (I don't know what it sends women.)

That said, Instagram is actually not run like Facebook in my experience, which is most of the reason Threads is part of IG.

Re:How the new Threads app is made by novok on Friday July 07, 2023 @08:49PM (#36640186)
I think that happens because females tend to use social media more, or out of your social graph females are the ones who do. Im a straight partnered male and i dont get coombait because i dont find the content interesting and very quickly i get cute pets and science stuff and half of the suggested people are other male friends
Re:How the new Threads app is made by astrange on Saturday July 08, 2023 @08:37PM (#36650200)
That's possible, yeah.

I'm not sure how many different "algorithms" Instagram has. For me I've got the reels to only show me animal videos so it's a pretty good experience, but I'm afraid to give them any signals that'll knock it to anything else. Account recommendations and ads do try to hornybait me, mostly because my partner is a dancer so it reads that content as sexy.