Opened damus X account to post about notedeck and the first thing it popped in the algo feed was a video of kids playing with a gun and accidentally shooting their cousin in the head and then shooting themself. Now I feel ill. Fuck that app and their algo.
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Wtf
I only pick the following algo. The For You one is fucked up
Before it would always open algo feed when the app opened. Looks like they fixed that. Thank god
That is a sequential feed
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Makes me wonder if someone in your follows enjoys watching that shit and thatβs how it got to you.
I barely follow anyone on that account
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Served up as entertainment. π₯Ί
The algo serves up what you look at/engage with. That it showed you that says more about you. Mine's Canadian political crap (I engage), cute dog vids (often shared to the wife), and truck stuff (job related searches).
I barely use the app, I open it to post stuff.
The algoβs are supposed to keep you in longer. I think the algoβs arenβt doing their thing correctly ππ
That is true, but also nonsense at the same time.
Since the entire app is completely rotten to the core with disgusting content like this, it is impossible to scroll through the timeline and not stop at content like this.
Just stopping to scroll for a millisecond, maybe because you looked at your child for a monent, already tells the algo that "you want to see this", even if you really dont and never actually clicked into it.
It is impossible to use X and never "engage" with disgusting content.
Stay on follows and never dive into For You and you shouldn't have a problem. What is Nostr except only Follows unless you dive into Global. In Global you will see whatever which may include even worse stuff. Nostr is still young but when it catches on you better believe Global will be really gross.
I know that, I've been using lists for Twitter for years, long before Follows even was a thing.
But it's a systemic issue. If one my follows uses the For You tab, they will inevitably retweet deranged content and flush it into my Follows tab as well.
Algo is desensitizing people to violence and death on purpose π€
Too frequent to not be by design.
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Yep. People argue nostr is a dangerous cesspit, yet I have nothing close to the disturbing posts I have seen regularly on twitter.
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That's disgusting and disturbing. Screw that.
WTF.
What the hell, this is sick π·
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Sick as fuck, what kind of algo is that? βΉοΈ
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how would such a video not get the propagation or reach on nostr tech wise? Someone please explain.