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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
RULES:
- Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
- Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
- Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
- Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
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It's crazy how the algorithm isn't even good, it's just effective at generating watch time on average. It tries to push you towards addictive trash constantly, whether you watch it or not. I learned rust and got "why rust sucks" and "why rust is the best language" about 25 times now despite never watching videos like that, because maybe THIS time I'll get ragebaited.
Oh, the algorithm is good, it's good at generating watch time. That's it's purpose. It serves the company, not you.
What I'm saying is it's not even good at that, and it has caused me to leave several times when every video it recommends is clickbait garbage. It just knows it works on most people who aren't actively looking out for it. It's basically purely designed for engagement baiting, regardless of if you take the bait or not it'll keep doing it.
Because that method has long since hit saturation. Consider: a normal person spends a reasonable amount of time watching videos they find interesting. A nutcase watches whatever feeds their insanity, all day, every day. Therefore, instead limiting your watchtime by only serving you what you want, the algo can maximise watch time by driving you insane.