Instagram gets worse with dark patterns lifted from TikTok
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#2Is the Tucker Carlson story few days back, about the tiktok algo promoting edu and wholesome content within China, but twerking and gender transition in the west true?
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#3Is the Tucker Carlson story few days back, about the tiktok algo promoting edu and wholesome content within China, but twerking and gender transition in the west true?
Yes because they do as they are told.
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#4Is the Tucker Carlson story few days back, about the tiktok algo promoting edu and wholesome content within China, but twerking and gender transition in the west true?
waiting for my Civilization: VII game to have 'boost twerking signal' when I reach modern age tech trees
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#5Is the Tucker Carlson story few days back, about the tiktok algo promoting edu and wholesome content within China, but twerking and gender transition in the west true?
> Is the Tucker Carlson story [...] true?
No
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#6Bummer. I loved the mute feature and had hopes TikTok would pick it up. But the reverse? Serious bummer.
Re: Instagram gets worse with dark patterns lifted from TikTok
#7Is the Tucker Carlson story few days back, about the tiktok algo promoting edu and wholesome content within China, but twerking and gender transition in the west true?
I get bird and cat videos; plus some Kronk and Dr. Doofenschmirtz.
It gives you more of what you watch and upvote. So the contents of your For You page are on you, after the first 5 or so videos.
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#8for instagram, i just gave up looking at the feed and just look at the posts that a group chat sends
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#9Is the Tucker Carlson story few days back, about the tiktok algo promoting edu and wholesome content within China, but twerking and gender transition in the west true?
Certain types of content is banned on Douyin but the idea that tiktok promotes "edu and wholesome content within China" is a myth spread by Andrew Tate a couple months ago.
TikTok promotes the content that you respond to, no different than the recommendation algos we've gotten from our homegrown social media companies. Their biggest differentiator is that the signals they use are way better. If you see alot of gender transitioning content, then it says more about the content you watch.
That said, if you think critically, if Chinese users as a whole preferred educational and wholesome content on tiktok, that says more about Chinese society and what they value not that there is some boogeyman who holds a big level on whether to show you cats or twerking.
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#10Bummer. I loved the mute feature and had hopes TikTok would pick it up. But the reverse? Serious bummer.
I hated their previous implementation too. This whole "you've unmuted one thing once which means you've unmuted everything for the rest of your session" assumption is just plain stupid. All too often I unmute something, watch it, keep scrolling for a minute or two, and then another video comes up and startles me. That's not okay. But I guess their shitty metrics don't show that?
And then, let's be honest, video autoplay in any shape or form in the first place is also a clear dark pattern hoping to grab your attention. Some Instagram builds have a server-side setting to disable video autoplay, which I use (by enabling the debug menu where you get to override all those things manually). Some builds do not. Yes, I got annoyed by Instagram UX so much that I had to decompile it, patch the nastiest parts out, and put it back together.