Comment on Instagram has announced it will be removing beauty filters – but the damage is done.
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 1 month agoMeta should probably never be blamed for innovating when all they do is steal ideas from potential competitors and crudely duct tape them onto existing products. Instagram was once a useful, good app and now it’s 80% features from Snapchat and TikTok and you maybe see a friend’s post a week late.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Now now, they innovated by turning Facebook from way you could see what your friends were doing on your feed into algorithmically determining exactly which batshit insane ‘news’ stories from cranks and posts from crazy people would be the most effective rage bait to specifically you once they figured out that anger and rage are the most effective way to cause retention and engagement.
They basically scientifically perfected trolling, and figured out how to monetize it.
Sure it widely proliferated dangerous anti science nonsense, bigotry, racism, sexism, homophobia, fostered the Q Anon insanity mind plague and facilitated it going mainstream, but hey, hate sells.