I like the UI design of Threads and I’m trying to enjoy the app, but it keeps flooding my feed with desperate, attention-seeking women in suggestive clothing and positions. I never have this problem on X.
Google's getting wiser tho, I went from getting insta thirst ads to getting anime weaboo girl ads, to getting half naked dragon girl ads, until finally I recently got advertised some gay furry stuff. Nice.
That said, chatgpt is pretty decent at role playing, if you know how to trick it into it (still actually not that hard). It's an interesting topic though; some people are resistant to playing that sort of "game" with it, even though those people are fine with in-game romances such as those in Mass Effect and Baldur's Gate.
From what I can tell, this is the way Instagram recommendations treat cold start users. It was only when I started liking stuff that they went away.
I have never posted, liked a post, and follow family exclusively. I keep clicking the "not interested" option but it hasn't changed anything.
It was strange but comforting to know Meta doesn't have shit on me.
Ultimately it is because I wasn’t using Instagram actively enough so the algorithm defaulted to Late 20s Male profiling.
Spend 2-5 minutes selecting the posts you don’t want to see and training the algorithm.
Instagram: Press and hold on items on the search tab and select “not interested”. To give it your actual interests, search for a few things like Golf, Cars, etc.
Threads: Select the three dots on posts and choose “Hide”. Same as Instagram, search for a few generic topics you prefer.
Massively better results as soon as the next day.
I want threads to work so badly compared to Twitter that I’ve happily just written a guide to train Metas algorithm. That’s how badly Twitter has dropped the ball.
I had the opposite experience. I never had this problem either, until all the firings happened.
After that, either someone wasn't looking after the thirst traps, or they actively changed the throttle of them so they kept appearing.
That was about a month before I left that cess pit.
In fact, I used to be very surprised to read that Twitter had been previously widely used for porn adverts. I was kind of deluded into not even thinking about it. But scratch the surface and it was there. But it never appeared in my daily use.
Prior to the takeover I had been oblivious to it. After the takeover, the surface was scratched and what had previously been "underground" really made itself known in my twitter feed.
That isn't what made me leave the platform, but just my observation at the time.