Comment on Instagram boss says users will be ‘overwhelmed’ with brand content in algorithm-free world

• alpha1beta@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Are you missing a chromosome?

  What do you actually think would happen here? That a friend would text me within, idk, 1 to 4 hours of his mom dying? I think he’s got bigger problems - calling a funeral home, or just dealing with the grief.

  Was he supposed to text me before the body was cold?

  Or was I supposed to text him, either hourly or before I say anything else, “Hey, if your mom dead yet?”.

  I didn’t go to Instagram LOOKING for this information. But it was there. As this was when the algorithm was new, I had a decade of experience with IG to expect that if there was anything recent, a quick scroll would surface it, but I was also doing the same thing I’d do a couple times a day.

  But IG manipulated my feed, ruined the experience and caused an awkward moment.

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  • jsnfwlr@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    What do you actually think would happen here? That a friend would text me within, idk, 1 to 4 hours of his mom dying? I think he’s got bigger problems - calling a funeral home, or just dealing with the grief.

    No, I expected you to text him with “hey mate, haven’t heard from you in a bit, hope everything is as good as can be”

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