Otter@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoUsers shocked to find Instagram limits political content by defaultarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareNotAtWork@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoI have seen trans creators in IG reporting that they are being filtered by this setting, so that’s not great.
minus-squaredrawerair@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoWere they posting things re laws related to gender? If yes, maybe Instagram treated those as political and maybe those content didn’t reach many folks – due to the limit setting discussed in the article.
minus-squareNotAtWork@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoNo, mostly just regular posts, meta just decided that being trans is “political”.
minus-squaredrawerair@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoInstagram should fix its algorithm then.
minus-squareNotAtWork@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoYeah, that’s why I brought it up, Meta is kind of a shit company.
I have seen trans creators in IG reporting that they are being filtered by this setting, so that’s not great.
Were they posting things re laws related to gender? If yes, maybe Instagram treated those as political and maybe those content didn’t reach many folks – due to the limit setting discussed in the article.
No, mostly just regular posts, meta just decided that being trans is “political”.
Instagram should fix its algorithm then.
Yeah, that’s why I brought it up, Meta is kind of a shit company.