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).
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I barely use the app, I open it to post stuff.
The algo’s are supposed to keep you in longer. I think the algo’s aren’t doing their thing correctly 🙈😂
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.