Just saw a no-longer relevant evacuation notice on instagram from five hours ago and remembered — that’s right, due to hyper-monetization every major social network no longer shows you life-saving breaking news as it happens.
They turned it over to an algorithm that finally noticed “he likes fire.”
They turned it over to an algorithm that finally noticed “he likes fire.”
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I hate its "you interact with (thing) most, so we'll skew it that way, eventually we only show you that coz you only interact with that"
If we stop following Meta, Facebook, Instagram, threads, and X, we show them that we are not going to allow them to show us fake news and manipulate us!
And then they go back to get their "news" from social media.
When Calgary flooded Facebook and Twitter were INSTANT sources of updated news
It’s such a shame really.
It was news as it happened, because there was no agenda.
Something going on? Twitter instantly informed you (truthfully).
Today I don't trust 99.9% of what I see (altered/fake images) or hear, on SM
As soon as everyone posts, even if all the posts are correct, the information sharing turns into cacophony without a higher level editing / interpretation.
It is also how populists get away with lies. Somethung needs to order the info and, you are right, we gave that to algorithms.
But it's built in.
Back then 20 posts from the same neighbourhood at the same time gave you a real "3D" idea of what was happening.
Again, there was no agenda and nobody was trying to get "likes"... We shared info to share info
“It’s better this way!”
Trying to remember if there's a nod to it in the remake.. deleted scenes, maybe?
It literally said "The post may use language that attacks a person or group of people based on who they are."
Meta is a joke with no punchline but Zuck's face.
#obama wins second term
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Dogschitt leadership
Dogschitt corporations.
Profits above all else.
Work, no retirement, die.
It's also serves as a directory/rendezvous to help get hold of people you lost contact of and probably may never cross paths with again were it not for meta/FB.
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It's almost comical how many specials I see from restaurants I follow about three days after they were, you know, available. The Meta algo is just the pits.
It's too easy to manipulate; despite the upside of small time reporting, it's at the whims of popularity and corporate.
If you don't like fire, you'll be left to burn.
"Hey handsome. 😉 I bet you have a REALY sexy social security number..."
Don’t really get those “we’re all going through something in real time together” moments as much because of the way content is throttled then dribbled out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TLhfqIFRB8
It tends to histrionics more than not (48 hours of warnings before 2 inches of snow) but it's a work in progress.
For now.
Do you know another way to communicate with large numbers of people in a disaster when all the power is shut off ?
More quickly than the local news which was showing you a murder from hundreds of miles away
“Less busy than usual”
1. Because that used to work.
2. I was on instagram and got delivered an hours old evacuation notice from the official account of the New York Times. No one “relies” on instagram for news unless it’s about your former coworker’s kid losing a tooth.
It's interesting how we, in the West, have become reliant on social media for news now, too.
Fully losing a formerly reliable way to learn what’s happening on Earth
It's accelerationism. Trying to get to the star trek future by speedrunning the part that kills 2/3rds of humanity during WW3.
Then the fire came to Orange County but I was not..."
Same old story 😭😭😭
I can't fathom why anyone thinks it's a "must-use" app.
BlueSky really needs to step its video and live game up so it can attract musicians.
B: social media allow people on the site of an event to spread the news faster than it takes news people to get there
This used to work in the past.
And, because of the so-called challenges, it has also caused deaths. But no one, no government or entity has ever seriously opposed the elimination of monetization.
Even public radio is often a mix of national programs with the occasional local show, and they've fallen into the 'Say his name constantly or people don't tune in' trap.
And don't get me started on local newspapers.
First acquired last year when FB wasn't pushing alerts then either.
One of the things that I found using it, is just how much of a ghost town Facebook is. Suddenly realising that few people are posting, with hours in between.
There are few people who are not prone to this happening.
It's like when someone sees someone else get conned and say "ha! Idiot, I'll never be fooled!"
Free reign to lies and deceit
Should they turn it on? Yes but why is the algorithm putting life-altering events as political??