Facebook suggesting right-wing rage bait to me. Thanks algorithm !

Day XXX of conservatives making liberals look cool by accident.
- No accident. We always have been the cooler ones.
  
  Liberals in the American sense (not far right) or in the pol-sci one (private property is the most fundamental of rights)?

I would fuck both cars
- You know what I'd do with a million dollars? Drive two cars at the same time.
- go to !fuckcars to learn more!
  
  I am scared to look for cars fucking cars

Right wing rage bait drives engagement which in turn drives up the cost of advertising and gives them more revenue. This is really why everyone needs to abandon corporate social media in droves.

Did...did they censor trash?
Oh, god, that just makes everything worse!
"PSA: Do you know how difficult it is being a #&$8man? He picks up your $&@( for you. Be respectful to your local #(#-men."
- ASSMAN.
- It's "Trish". That's the 2nd girl's name. They didn't want to be banned for doxxing.
- Took me so long to figure out that this wasn't some obscure swearword.

That’s what you get for using Facebook. Just delete your account already.

Deactivated FB six weeks ago.
I'm not saying you should do the same, but I'm not not saying it.
- 6 weeks? I thought everyone left that dumpster fire 8 years ago
  
  Nope.
  It's a shame they didn't.
  
  Thats about when I dropped FB for the second time for the last time... I was dating a girl that didn't believe I didnt have a FB, my dumbass makes a new one and it was pure misery like the last go. I can't imagine how bad it is now...
- I was banned from FB years ago, they did me a favor
- It's how I stay updated on events mostly. Even if a decent alternative existed it would take a long time to get many of my friends and family to move, not to mention some of the groups.
  
  Understable. Requires more legwork without it, but I don't mind that for the mental health tradeoff.
- Deactivating is for wafflers. Delete that shit, burn the crops, and salt the earth in your wake.
  
  It's really not.
  You're still starving the beast. Deactivating just leaves the people who know me an outlet to get in touch if needed.
- I need it to contact like 90% of the people I talk to
  
  Are all your friends American retirees?
- You are still looking at a Facebook post. You simply found a way to feel superior to the people who do it on Facebook.
  
  It's not a superiority thing.
  As much as I dislike FB, it unfortunately still has a lot of use for most people. I get that.

Why you still on Facebook?
- Because we left Reddit but there still not enough Lemmy content for while we're sitting on the porcelain throne.
  
  Imo continuing to use reddit is a lot better than using Facebook. As many issues as you may have with Reddit as a company, Meta is far worse.
  
  You need fiber not facebook
  
  Got to change your sort and subscribe to more communities. There is more than enough stuff here to make my legs go numb on the can.
- I don't blame him, my wife, my mom and my gran are all there and like to see pictures

and god forbid you tell conservatives that all of those options can exist in this world, and that people have different opinions. (and that's okay)
- I think I know why people who only comment the most repugnant shit always complain about being "censored:" they want everyone else to be as miserable as they are, so it enrages them when nobody wants to listen to their barely-coherent screeds.
  After all, what's the fun in posting to 4Chan when they're just another outrage baiter? Nobody there cares if they're incivil, hateful, or childish so they can't get the rise out of people that they crave. There are callous laughs to be had there, but it doesn't feed the need.
  No, they have to go to places where they can spread their miserable loathing around and get any kind of attention for it. Anything for that hit of dopamine they get from angering the targets of their ire.

Who gives a fuck? The car isn't decorated for you it's decorated for its owner. Same goes with how a person chooses to dress or decorate their body.
Ultimately just another form of "your body exists for my enjoyment".

I have no idea what they are advertising
- Women as property
- Right wing rage

Stop clicking on right wing rage bait and it won't be recommended to you lol
- You don't even need to click for them to recommend it. If you look at it longer than another thing, or take a screenshot when it's on the screen, it's a signal that you might spend more time on the app if they show those kind of things. And the chance of you spending more time on the app means more money for them through ads.
  
  They're monitoring us THAT heavily?
- This is not true. Anyone that clicks anything remotely socialist immediately gets fed with the completely opposite, gommunism no food and 100gorillionbillion deaths propaganda. It immediately tries to lead people to the opposite.
  
  Happens on Youtube a lot, I watch leftist videos, and all of a sudden I'm recommended PragerU and it starts showing up on my fucking autoplay.
- I've never once had FB suggest things like this to me..
  Probably because I've never made an account!
- i noticed this year ago that if stop using my fb account after some time my TL is filled with "suggestions" RW and lewd stuff. i think they are just trying to see what i like, if i click on RW stuff they gonna flood them and same for lewd posts
  
  Which is weird, because when I try to share them my account just gets flagged and suddenly I can't message the three relatives that still use it for three months

Algorithm free is the way to be.

Looks at weird paint job on my project car Yeah who... who would paint a car like that?
I don't get it really. She can get tattoos if she wants, it's not like she's making me get them.

The content algorithms are terrible. I've been trolling some local news pages that have been posting about Jason Aldean, and it never fails that the most relevant comments are all showing support even though each comment only has a few likes, but when "all comments" is chosen, there are massive amounts of opposing comments that have an enormous amount of likes.
It's like the purest form of manufacturing consent.

When you grab images of two different people to try to prove you're right.
- And they fail because the bottom one looks hotter to me (person, not car. I concede that the top car looks better.)
  
  I'd say neither car looks good.
  
  I dunno, I'm not a car person at all but the bottom one looks a bit Splatoon-ish, so it's better by association?
  And I think both women look really beautiful.

This is rage bait? For all i know the lady above is the one below on a work day & vise-versa on vacation.
Like do these people want stock photos for a lover? That's on them, but i'm confident who they chose in the end to love was NOT the top image lol
- A girl I dated sold a set of modeling photos to one of the clip art sites in the early 2000s. She was in a movie too, but all of that right after we broke up.
  The photos of her from the photoshoot would show up in weird ways. She was all over the internet! She was an advertisement on the front page of msnbc for a while. But the real kicker was seeing her photo on the wall of a futon store. Like frickin huge. The store was on a corner of a busy intersection. I could see the picture on the wall as I turned the corner. WTF One time I had to stop and go inside just to check if I was making it up. My wife agreed it was her!
  And for like 10 years I would see it used in random places.
  She was and probably is super cute so not surprised she had some luck selling her appearance but JFC I'm pretty sure some dudes fell in love with her. I did to but at least she was interested in me too
- A woman who isn't tatted amd looks nice? Yeah.
  
  I've dated both and guess what? A nice looking woman without tattoos can make you just as miserable as one covered in tattoos. It's almost like you shouldn't base your whole selection process on appearances.

And conservatives are suing Facebook because they feel censored.
ROFL!

- Just a select few tattoos with certain...uh...symbols.
- They don't like the short top, her hair, or the tattoos.
  American conservative christians are generally anti-tattoo. They like things like long modest dresses, suits, clean short haircuts for men, etc. Very bland and conforming.

Algorithms are crap. I love archeology and space docs so, of course, my YouTube feed is 100% ancient aliens bullshit. I've even tried blocking channels but they keep coming back. I despise seeing Joe Rogan's face. I just ignore it and wait for a word of mouth suggestion. I refuse to be force fed shit.

Another mildly infuriating thing about Faecesbook, highlighted by this pic:
Regardless of the bullshit that it claims to the users, its moderation system is fully algorithmic and automatic. However since algorithms don't understand discourse, it's damn easy [when you're human] to say the shit that you want, in a way that they don't understand - but that other humans do. For example you can get away calling people "trash", even if this should be against Faecesbook's code of conduct; and nobody will be able to take your post down because no actual human being with power to take it down will actually review it.

Personally, I quite like tastefully tatted ladies, but that just me.

Its engagement bait, trying to make you click through and argue with people. I just hide/snooze it all as it shows up.

All cars look bad because pollution is ugly

But the question is, is that the same girl?
- i don't think so, they have different shaped faces and bodies and different hair colors

The one on the bottom is faster.

Do you feel like engaging it? Good... good...

There's a reason Ferrari doesn't allow the bottom one...

Lmao

Bottom car is ugly, sure. But I'd fuck both women; sure, I sometimes eat steak (top one) but sometimes I also eat shitty MCDonalds (bottom one)...
But lets be real, I'm on Lemmy. They wouldn't even look at me 🤷
- Calling a woman "shitty McDonald's" probably doesn't help either.