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Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels into Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence

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This seems to have happened on 26 Feb 2023 as well: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/26/instage...

The date must be cursed? Is there anything weird about the numbers? Y2K, 2038, and 0226?

Weirdly close date too.

That’s one of the reasons I watched these before, just to know what the world can be and to not lose sleep over it when accidentally exposed. We are living in a very thin layer of normalness under which is the abyss of murder, gore and violence. And sometimes this normalness was based/achieved through it. Ignoring it is in my opinion partially the source of the world’s problems. Because “X is poor and underdeveloped” and “A is at war with B” sounds less problematic and more abstract than a pile of dead bodies or someone lying on the road without a face, right before your eyes.

Why is this content on the servers after being moderated??

it's not moderated off the platform, just given sensitive content warnings — this content is all over instagram if you look for it

Ugh. I didn't know that. They should moderate that away.

I have no issue with erotic content at all (for which they do actually ban people!) but all this cruelty and violence has no place there.

All Meta cares about is engagement and they have a history of turning a blind eye to all kinds of bad behaviour across all of their platforms. The only way that changes is if it loses them money, which it clearly doesn’t. It’s highly unlikely that they’ll change so it may be worth reconsidering continuing to support a company that clearly doesn’t share your values and enables and monetizes the posting of horrific content.

Hmm yeah but then they wouldn't be so anal (pun intended) about erotic content. If anything is engaging it's that. Several people I know have been banned 4 or 5 times (they've taken to just increasing a number after their account name)

they only ban porn because apple won't let apps with a significant amount of porn in the app store

It certainly wasn't 'porn' that they were banned for though. No genitals in the picture etc. Not even boobs. Most of them were just in suggestive poses wearing latex or leather and perhaps holding a whip etc. Definitely not jerkoff material :) Well unless you're the type that jerks off to lingerie catalogues :P

They do seem to be really tough on that. On the other hand, X has a lot of real porn these days since they fired all the moderators. And reddit has tons.

I'm kinda hoping that we in Europe will start having some of our own social media apps, now that the US has gone full dark conservative. Porn and nudity are much less of an issue is, but violence is more of an issue than in the US. Right now the US pushes its own morals onto us.

I was wondering why virtually every single reel last night was people in a fist fight. Men versus men, women versus women, people getting concussed in a parking lot. Guess it wasn't just a coincidence.

I had multiple videos popping up in my feed of people dying in various accidents yesterday. Honestly people deserve more of an explanation than “oopsie”. That type of stuff is traumatizing.

There is something grounding about seeing gore, it doesn't feel real. My own opinion of life, living in a state of "this, then this, then this" not really in the moment. We forget about how fragile our bodies are. It's better not to be in fear of bad things like accidents/murder but yeah still good to keep in mind how life isn't so bad. When you see cartel videos for example damn. It's that thing out of sight out of mind.

Edit: makes me think of gated communities too keep the bad out. I'm not an anti-rich person but yeah good to have empathy. There's also so many people in the world can't help em all.

I watched a lot of gore videos in my pre-teen years and it's definitely good and bad. I don't regret it but I also have zero appetite for it now. I know a few people that still have a morbid curiosity for it but not for me. If it did ground once, it doesn't illicit anything positive anymore.

Gross. Yet another indicator that forcing a single closed-source algorithm is bad for users.

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