They crossed the line last fall when they put me in FB jail for posting a picture of my son at the beach in his bathing suit as "violating community standards", and then extended my jail-time further when I appealed and complained. The implication being that I was posting .. CSAM... because their image detection algorithm & moderation sucks... that's awful.
Meanwhile they continually try to show me far right or climate change denial material presumably to try to get me to "engage"; yesterday was a meme encouraging people to run over cyclists, complete with a picture of a cyclist being hit by a car, and when I reported it as encouraging violence they rejected my report.
Meta depends on outrage-engagement to make $$. Zuck talks a big talk about creating online community, but he's actually kind of created the opposite. Even the active FB groups I've been in around niche topics have become kind of awful in tone recently, like they're doing the same outrage engagement algos in them, too. Or people are just bigger assholes after COVID, I dunno.
They really are the worst, in actuality, and getting worse. I think I will delete my account ... but it means losing contact with a lot of friends and family.
Except that the icecream place is run by a group known for extremely poor hygiene, manipulating customers and lacing their other food products with nicotine to ensure chemical dependency issues.
1. You are a celebrity or influencer and you are trying to “colonize” the place
2. You have a business that sells products or services to this people: celebs and influencers are your primary target
I really tried to make Mastodon work for me, but the lack of discoverability killed it.
As somebody with trans people in my family, getting away from Musk's Twitter is a priority. But Twitter is where I get a lot of news and entertainment.
I would rather have seen Mastodon win, but their product just isn't good enough.
Ahhh! That is the key to the design.
A network of users consuming and producing in real time. Weird feedback amplification effects.
A vast beast with a million heads, muttering to itself.
(Having your notifications turned on might be important for this to work. Remember that Black Mirror episode where having your notifications turned on was legally mandated.)
I want a tree of threads. Posts and replies. Like reddit and hn. It's the only way that makes sense.
Boggling that they do it this way.