• s@piefed.world
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    21 hours ago

    Please explain to us how the Threadiverse algorithms promote content that receives either more comments or more direction-agnostic voting activity, and how this isn’t just OP being lazy and not selecting an uncensored version of the meme that they found on a site which has either those factors or which does reduce the visibility of posts with taboo words in

    • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      16 hours ago

      Attention seeking and validation seeking are baked into human personalities to varying degrees, and plenty of behavior predating social media (and even the internet) was motivated by those tendencies.

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      15 hours ago

      I never claimed it was, I was just referring to the original intent with which the half censor was placed on the image.