Please explain to us how the Threadiverse algorithms promote content that receives either more comments or more direction-agnostic voting activity, and how this isn’t just OP being lazy and not selecting an uncensored version of the meme that they found on a site which has either those factors or which does reduce the visibility of posts with taboo words in
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trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 23 hours agoIt’s engagement bait and you’re falling for it
s@piefed.world 20 hours ago
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
Attention seeking and validation seeking are baked into human personalities to varying degrees, and plenty of behavior predating social media (and even the internet) was motivated by those tendencies.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I never claimed it was, I was just referring to the original intent with which the half censor was placed on the image.
FishFace@piefed.social 22 hours ago
I’m sure they’re very excited about their Lemmy metrics