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Re:Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food? by ruszki on Thursday January 23, 2025 @10:02AM (#42804697)
Algorithms are terrible with that. For example, there was this girl on TikTok who made fun things with her hair. It was fun, I marked it as I liked it. The first few times I enjoyed the exact same joke. Then when it became too frequent I indicated that I wanted less of it. The algorithm immediately thought that I didn’t care about fun things at all. I did this about 3 times, and my feed became really boring. The same in every single social media.

And it’s even worse, because when I flagged clear lies, my feed became more bland. So at the end I’m incentivised to consume lies.

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