Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs

Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by evantbyrne on Friday January 10, 2025 @02:17PM (#42659002)

I finally quit my barren Twitter when the Musk takeover resulted in my feed being flooded with porn (including illegal content) and arabic carpet cleaning ads. I seriously doubt anyone's default Reddit front page has ever looked like that.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by WalterBright on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:51PM (#42660051)

I don't see any porn in my feed. Some of it is salacious, but not porn.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by commandlinefan on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:04PM (#42659543)

I keep seeing people say they've experienced this, but I've been on twitter for years (pre Musk and stayed post Musk) and I've never once seen porn on there. How does this happen by accident?

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by swatcoder on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:17PM (#42659649)

They're going to have a pretty developed and stable picture of you and what you respond to by now, especially of their view of you aligns with high- value placements already.

So they probably don't bother to audition that kind of content for you very often because they already have strategies that milk your attention, engagement, and wallet better.

When you hear other people share their experience as new or different users, keep in mind how customized all these platforms are and how idiosycratically optimized they'll already be for you as a long-time, engaged user.

Most people can't go back in time to get where you are, and don't have any sure (or worthwhile) road to get there.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by SmirkingRevenge on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:28PM (#42659768)

In my case, my (now deleted) account (which was primarily read-only) would get several porn bot followers per day. If I didn't log in for a week, I'd have dozens of new "p#i#c#s#i#n#b#i#o" type accounts following me.

Towards the end, there would often be porn in replies of many posts on all kinds of topics, like politics, news, etc.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by commandlinefan on Friday January 10, 2025 @04:40PM (#42660585)

> several porn bot followers per day

Ah, ok, yeah, you're right, that did (and still does) happen to me. I had forgotten about that, I just ignore followers now.

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