Do people not actively curate what they like? E.g. using more of "Not Interested". I generally follow artists because they have great taste. I am very religous in disliking if a particular post is not benefitting me in consuming it.
I do that heavily. Still, instagram decides to nuke my preferences quite often. Right now I'm on tik tok garbage, two weeks ago I had arabic muslim stuff (like videos in mosques, prayers etc). I don't use it at all when that happens, so they loose out. Give me trail running and outdoor shit and I'm happy, very easy!
Algorithms are terrible with that. For example, there was this girl on TikTok who made fun things with her hair. It was fun, I marked it as I liked it. The first few times I enjoyed the exact same joke. Then when it became too frequent I indicated that I wanted less of it. The algorithm immediately thought that I didn’t care about fun things at all. I did this about 3 times, and my feed became really boring. The same in every single social media.
And it’s even worse, because when I flagged clear lies, my feed became more bland. So at the end I’m incentivised to consume lies.
I managed to train Facebook out of showing me ads.
It took about two years of monthly clicking on "I don't want to see content from this page again" for it to stick, but now I haven't seen an ad in forever. Either I exhausted all companies in my area that advertise with Facebook, either the algorithm has stopped showing them to me.
