Define "political."
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2024
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these platforms are ran by nazis, musk is just open about it
“Left wing”
Nailed it lol
'm going to guess it's going to be shitty conservative takes like "a gay wedding photo is political but a straight one is not".
Having an AI do a really shitty job of detecting whether something is “potentially related to things like laws, elections or social topics.”
"All content by and about queer people or people of color is political. Enjoy your content by and about straight white men."
I bet magically any right wing content won't count as "political"
I'd bet anything about labor unions is 'political' but some shit article like 'work from home is bad for your mental health' is not.
This is a good step forward, assuming that the algorithm is good at determining what counts as political content. However I'm not sure how effective this will be when users still have the ability to opt back in to political recommendations.
As much as I hate Facebook. Allowing users to opt back in is the right move. Reddit would've forced it onto everyone.
Same. Facebook is of course horrible and has been a net loss for humankind, but Reddit and Elron Musk have managed to demonstrate that things could be even worse.
I'm sure the algorithm will do a passable but terrible job, like their AI moderation. The problem I see is it gives them further excuses about censoring certain topics from people's feed, while allowing through the political speech they want people to see.
Figure out real fast where you fit in the political spectrum when you decide that some civil rights are just politics
Well, no shit. That's why I finally stopped using Facebook - they were obsessed with filling my feed with political bullshit that I had no interest in (e.g. people from my work or friends' parents jerking off about how great Trump is - absolutely no good for me to interact with that).
I left Facebook in 2020. 4 years of that trump shit I was just tapped out when covid pandemic conspiracy shit hit
I barely use instagram since then as well
I think 2020 was it for me too. I had already stopped visiting more than once every 2-3 months but 2020 was when I finally said wow, fuck this. Some guy who I had to work with professionally - he was actually a show director for a trade show we attended each year - posted a pic, in all seriousness, about how the covid test put a microchip up your nose. Thanks Facebook, I really needed to learn about that. Well, fair warning about the guy I guess. Then I tried to sign into my account just for maintenance in 2023 and though I'd used a linked IG account fairly regularly, and obviously they could tell, it said that I needed to upload my driver's license to sign into Facebook. Like, who do they think there are? No.
Y'all, it's just about the recommendation system. It's not like they are banning politics or politicians (I'm looking at you, X), and you must understand the feed is already dominated by boosted garbage anyway (especially after they added reels). People already hate and generally ignore things from people they don't follow.
That said, I avoid IG ever since I did a part time job running accounts, and that shit was soul crushing. I just don't like folks acting like everything is a conspiracy on Lemmy-- this ain't 4chan. IG really just needs a better recommendation algorithm, ideally one focused image sharing (although that enshittification ship has sailed).
Yeah right
I don't use Instagram but political accounts sorta sound counter to the whole idea of it.
10-12 years ago IG had a different feel but at this point it's just generic social media like anything else, plus they also tried to copy Snapchat and TikTok, which has a lot of political content.