Went to visit this godforsaken place and was terrified by the amount of racist/xenophobic/nazi/misogynistic/incel/far-right posts and comments.
Was it always like that? Am I too used to being on Lemmy (or Fediverse in general)? Is it just my feed or is it like this for everybody?
Depends on your feed. rn most people are getting gore lol. Some part of the algorithm got fucked and it looks like liveleak.
Most of the racism I see on ig comedic and self aware. Not that it’s good, but it’s not meant as a far-right agenda pushing racism. More of a “I’m gonna make fun of minorities bc I think it’s funny and I don’t care about politics”
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than instagram.
- Oscar Wilde
Never believe random quotes you see on the Internet
- Vladimir Illich Lenin, 1922.
My feed on Instagram is filled with Nature / Science Documentaries, Comic and Cartoons Reels (Pokemon, Tom and Jerry, etc). But sometimes comments will exhibit the usual shenanigans (i.e. “I don’t believe in evolution”), or accounts that used to be legit suddenly devolve into advertisement spam.
I make sure my preferences are kept by liking the content / posts that cater to them so the algorithm shows me more of them. Of course, I also set a timer on Android so that I don’t spend too much time on the platform (20 mins a day)
That’s Instagram in its normal state, right now my Instagram feed basically turned into LiveLeak
yeah basically echoing what everyone else has said. with a little bit of interaction it’ll get rid of that stuff pretty quick and i really don’t see much of it anymore except for really mainstream stuff like the occasional joe rogan clip or something.
