Technology

59559 readers

3371 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

326

Users shocked to find Instagram limits political content by default (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by otter@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

46 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] drawerair@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)

When I think of Instagram, I think of selfies, food pics, landscapes, pet pics and other pretty pics.

Political feuds online can be nasty right? There are long toxic conversations. Folks spend much time arguing on the platform. Meta likes that long session. But it seems Meta is promoting positivity? Seems Meta wants a long positive session.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 13 points 8 months ago

Seems Meta wants a long positive session.

I'm sure their advertisers prefer to be associated with positive activities more than negative ones.

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Have you peeked your head into IG recently? I spend a lot of time there, some of the content and specially the comments sections are just absolutely unhinged. More than any other platform I've been on too, it's a relatively new thing it started happening about 2 years ago. It's actually a good time, reminds me of the internet circa 2008.

[–] dlrht@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

IG comments are absolutely hilarious

[–] CircuitSpells@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Right? I cannot believe how consistently toxic ig comments are, even on the most unsuspecting videos. I'm surprised this isn't talked about more often. The constant sexism is just jading. Negative comments skyrocket to the top of the comment section because they get the most replies, and there is no down voting functionality. But I think it's gotten slightly better recently? I wonder if the limiting of political content has anything to do with it. Maybe ig is actually trying to improve their platform.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

specially the comments sections are just absolutely unhinged. More than any other platform I've been on too

Woah, even worse than the shitfest that is YouTube comments?

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Yuuup lol