• s@piefed.world
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    12 天前

    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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      12 天前

      I never claimed it was, I was just referring to the original intent with which the half censor was placed on the image.

    • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12 天前

      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.