[hcarvalhoalves]

I login to Instagram and I see:

- Ad promoting "investment" platform with deep fakes of personalities

- Ad from radicalized politician promoting hate speech

- Semi-naked girl promoting their "other" social media (OnlyFans)

- Ad disguised as content of some dude promoting a random restaurant

I agree with Zuckerberg, it's not social media anymore. I don't see content from any friend, only scams.

[arnaudsm]

I've noticed that every single website that I enjoy on the internet is non-profit. Did we optimize for the wrong metric since the beginning?

[hcarvalhoalves]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

[alok-g]

Loved reading this. Thanks for sharing.

[frollogaston]

My YouTube account had recommendations for music because that's what I use it for. When they launched YT Shorts (basically their version of TikTok), that section was 75% thirst trap videos, albeit still music-related. Like "cool violin solo" but played by a girl sorta pointing the camera up her skirt in the thumbnail. I never watched those or anything similar, but I guess they knew I was male and wanted to hook me.

[selfhoster]

I dislike Shorts with a passion.

[callc]

If you use Firefox, try https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recom...

Works great.