This is still ongoing for some users if their sub is anything to go by.
404 write up: https://www.404media.co/instagram-error-turned-reels-into-neverending-scroll-of-murder-gore-and-violence/
It was definitely a good development to let social media operators make automated “recommendations based on what you seem to like” instead of, you know, letting users decide manually what they want to see, amirite… /s
There is still social media that lets you see posts made by your friends and people you follow in chronological order coughfetlifecough
Yeah I know, I sort Lemmy by “new comments” and Mastodon obviously only chronologically.
It’s just that the first type of “social media” I ever used (in my childhood) was the web forum and I kinda miss that. :D
I find the algorithms spot on. Zero need to optimize around an edge case/zero day.
Terrible, horrifying. But what kind of porn? Where would I go to see it to verify this?
Lemmynsfw exists… I’m not subscribed to it, but I get boobs on the All feed all the time.
I’m not complaining
funny how everyone seem to be complaining about pron but my all feed is squeaky clean.
wonder if it has to do with the instance we are registered to?
It wasn’t that long ago that the world almost ground to a halt because some people saw Janet Jackson’s breast.
Now we have this, and there will be zero consequences.
You mean the US went pearl clutching whilst the rest of the world went “oh… okay, and?”
the world almost ground to a halt
The US. “The world”, at least the part that’s not religious zealots, looked at that, went like “oh, surprise boob” and maybe giggled a bit.
Not even the US. Most people there didn’t care at all. The religious right whipped itself into a frenzy, started a moral crusade and is now supporting a rapist, adulterer and sexuell harasser
Would be quite funny, if it were not so depressing.
She didn’t deserve the hate for an accident that wasn’t even caused by her.
Either it was an accident and wasn’t at fault at all. Or it was a coordinated stunt and Justin owns 50% of it, if other production people weren’t also in on it.
But Janet got shit on because she’s a woman and black and Justin somehow walked away unscathed for decades. Fucked up.
It was a stunt. Janet did the classic porn reaction of seeing her own boob and looking at it incredulously while shaking her head and not trying to cover it at all.
The normal human reaction is covering the exposure at the speed of light.
Stunt or not. Only one person got hate for it.
Plus she had like a weird metal thing going around her nipple and breast that allowed for plausible deniability that her tit was out. Definitely a planned stunt
I mean yes but also credited as the inspiration to start YouTube so also the same as it ever was?
So this stuff is always on the platform? Why the fuck?
zucks personal zuckerbank
One more reason I’ll never use Meta social media ever again. I’m not surprised
Better get off the internet then if porn and violence is too much to handle.
Maybe just maybe, people are ok with gore/porn when they’re expecting it, but don’t like seeing it when they’re not?
I don’t use meta garbage and have been on the Internet long enough that I regularly saw gore videos as a teen because I hung out on 4chins all the time. I’m not averse to gore, but I still don’t want to randomly see that shit in my feeds.
Also, well adjusted people generally don’t feel good when they randomly see gore and shit…
It was a bug. That shit randomly pops up on most federated instances as a feature here.
Lemmy has plenty of porn and violence. You quitting here?
That’s a pretty facetious reply. Lemmy has tons of ways of curating your feeds and that’s one of its big strengths in my opinion.
This isn’t about seeing the occasional bit of NSFW material (which I still see occasionally on my Lemmy feed, despite having blocked a bunch of NSFW communities). This latest Instagram debacle involved people’s entire feeds being full of not just pornography, but also heavily NSFL gore stuff.
However, the real crux of this issue is clear when I imagine how I’d feel if a problem like this happened with Lemmy — I’d be unhappy, but I wouldn’t flee the platform, because I trust various admins to not bullshit me about what had happened and what was going to be done in future. Meta has burned through any goodwill it might’ve once had, and the only thing that’s transparent about them is their bullshit
It was a bug/exploit. You don’t normally need to manually curate to avoid that content. You are exposed to more of it here having to manually curate.
You block one furry instance and another one immediately gets federated.
