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The unalive thing I think is mostly down to silent deranking rather than regular moderation. People know certain things cause your posts to be deranked by the algorithm but you can’t know exactly what they are or when it’s happened. Which has lead to people preemptively avoiding things they think get deranked regardless of if it actually would have or not.
Which is the most insidious kind of automated moderation. In an algorithmic feed like TikTok, strongly downranking content and removing it are close to the same. And by doing it silently with no way to easily get feedback on what you did wrong people self-censor both the things you are moderating and the things people imagine you would like to moderate
That's the point