Putting items on screen instead of scroll is not a dark pattern, it's just UI that does not think like the 2010 web
Instagram gets worse with dark patterns lifted from TikTok
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Please consider not using phrases like "Indian giving"
That's significantly racist.
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#103Twitter has also been doing this since a few months ago. And there's no way to disable it, no matter how often I tell it to "see this less often". Sometimes half the posts I see on the feed are recommended posts from people I don't follow nor care about. Not to mention the "notifications" bell has been useless for years now because all my notifications are suggested posts from people I follow. It's a total perversion…
At least currently, switching to “latest posts” sorting still removes most of the cruft.
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There are a lot of legitimate b2c healthtech companies looking for app developers.
And there are thousands if not millions of Americans without healthcare. Not a judgement against you or anyone looking for healthtech jobs, more power to you/them, but that's where I personally draw the line as someone looking for a (hopefully ethical) software/Web development job.
I think there's some genuine confusion in this comment. Do you think that you are helping Americans get healthcare by... not working for healthcare companies?
Most of these startups are aimed at improving access via telemedicine, accessibility apps, price comparison apps, etc. I'm not sure what you're imagining.
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Yeah. It's horrible. I'm on there because that's where my audience is for now, but I despise both the platform and company to a degree that's hard to express in words. It's weird. You'd think that inspiring customer loyalty by building a good product would be considered good business, but even as I'm typing that, I'm realizing how comically naive it sounds. Meta and its ilk are 100% about lock-in (and, to no small de…
I always assume that abusing the "offensive" report option would put me on a list where they just crank up the ads even more. I do tend to report some ad categories (supplements, cults, etc) as scams though.
I think if it's "I think this is offensive", they don't take any action—that just tells their algorithm what sort of thing you don't want to see.
For the more specific/serious stuff—reporting scams, violence, etc—they'll investigate (or pretend they did) and report back to you, but I don't get any of those responses for the "offensive" option.
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Please consider not using phrases like "Indian giving" That's significantly racist.
That would be the first time I've ever heard anyone say that about that phrase.
Please consider not correcting everyone with your wokeness; it is equally if not more intolerant than the people you lord it over.
Is the phrase "giving someone a dutch oven" rascist? What about jerry-rigging? What about a Mexican standoff?
If you guys are going to indiscriminantly purge "rascist" language, then be thorough about it. And don't weep when there's nothing left but some of the most bland, boring-ass speech available.
Come on.
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Haven't seen Bibliogram working at all in last 3 or 4 months. Every instance gives me blocked message - guess Instagram is actively fighting against these "proxies". There's this federated photo sharing service pixelfed [1](of course runs on ActivityPub) but it doesn't seem to be gaining any traction, comparable to mastodon. Perhaps because it doesn't come with a mobile application. [1] - https://github.com/pixelfed/…
Weird that Bibliogram doesn't work for you, for me, the main instance never worked, but most of other instances do work (both directly and via PrivacyRedirect addon).
Hell no idea why, but these stopped working; I've switched recently to LibRedirect btw - it handles more stuff. You should check it if you haven't yet
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> Is the Tucker Carlson story [...] true? No
I dunno, I believe his ranting about M&Ms came from a real place. He sure seemed upset that their recent redesign left him less sexually satisfied.
Very good point. His stories about his personal sexual kinks, lightly disguised as news, are probably accurate. Disturbing, but accurate.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
And there are thousands if not millions of Americans without healthcare. Not a judgement against you or anyone looking for healthtech jobs, more power to you/them, but that's where I personally draw the line as someone looking for a (hopefully ethical) software/Web development job.
I think there's some genuine confusion in this comment. Do you think that you are helping Americans get healthcare by... not working for healthcare companies? Most of these startups are aimed at improving access via telemedicine, accessibility apps, price comparison apps, etc. I'm not sure what you're imagining.
Nope, I'm helping Americans get universal healthcare in other ways.
But I'm acknowledging that for me personally, working for, selling my talent to and/or profiting from the "healthcare" industry as it exists today without a universal option to provide healthcare to every American, full stop, is a breach of my own ethics.
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#110I had just installed the web app version of Instagram with UBO enabled in Firefox. It was a radically changed experience, for the better. I had stopped using the native app some time before. But it sounds like this is the end of that. So... Bye!
I did the same with Facebook, which I still use because my extended family uses it. It took some trickery to remove FB from a Samsung phone but it can be done. The web version of FB works fine and it is less able to dig out personal info from my phone. (Which is why FB and everybody else prefers that you use their app, but to hell with that.)