Hoping they shut down and open source their algorithm. They already released part of it on github, apparently, but I haven’t had a chance to look at it. Would like it if I could somehow use it for a personal Loops server in the future.

The title says “Life of an IT Guy”, so that’s the association OP wants us to make

I’m assuming it’s their work bag…?

Everyone talking about the pain of being on call, I thought the comic was about how much IT guys love their backpacks…

I don’t work in IT.

I’m not a China felater, but I trust VERY few Western outlets to have unbiased coverage of any Chinese-related topics. They can’t even get the app’s name right in the headline.

I’ve used it in the past (to test my English-Mandarin translator project for school), and there are as many naked (and gay) men/women on it as Instagram.

Self-hosting your own recommendations would be amazing. I’m on the Testflight waitlist for Loops, hope I can get access soon.

Oh my god

Aljazeera is a fine source as long as you’re not looking at their news regarding Qatar/Qatari interests.

You know what, my friends who are still on it say that their FYP has been getting worse over the past 6 months or so. I wonder if you’re right.

None of them have the algorithm that makes Tiktok’s “For You Page” so attractive to most people. By far the best personalization algorithm of any social media I used during the pandemic. I basically never had to search for content or creators, the algo served me up a platter of people to follow that seemed directly tailored to me. That’s why it’s so addictive.

And that’s probably why American social media giants are salivating at acquiring it. Reels/Twitter/YT Shorts algo doesn’t even come close tbh.

NOOOOO ARCANE IS NOW CLASSIFIED AS CHINESE MILITARY PROPAGANDA NOOOOOOOOO!!

Yes, it’s this one, thank you! Youtube search really failed me.

I recently found out Elon was potentially an undocumented worker while “interning” in Silicon Valley. He says he got his degree at UPenn in 1995 and was at Stanford for his Master’s right after, but UPenn doesn’t have him getting his degree until 1997, and Stanford has no record of him actually enrolling in the college in 95/96, even though he was accepted. If he was legitimately interning in Silicon Valley through UPenn, why not just say that?

Plus, there is footage of him and his brother Kimbal speaking in 2013 at the Milken Institute (I can’t find the exact clip right now, unfortunately) where Kimbal admits word for word “We were illegal workers” while Elon hems and haws and says “It’s a grey area” while the crowd laughs.

The hypocrisy is so maddening.

I saw a photo of a father crying over the body of his baby that died of hypothermia. That child didn’t even make it to double digit months lived on this Earth. It was born and died in war.

How the fuck are people allowing this to go on anymore…

think theProud Black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller bit explains perfectly why they released the bots onto the wild.

This was my first thought too. It’s a peek behind the curtain to how “sophisticated” disinformation bots have actually become, and it’s super interesting that there’s backlash to it as most FB users love AI slop.

Maybe Meta’s actually taking it down because they don’t want people to start realizing how much of the social media they interact with is actually AI/LLM/chatbots.

It really is a class war, not a culture war.

Now THAT is some tea. But then again, rich people being greedy enough to fuck over their own children isn’t that surprising.

Why post just the women? If we need a new face, Bernard Arnault is right there, and the women listed aren’t even in the top 15 wealthiest…

Some great points made by users in this thread, but my main question from reading this was, “What the hell is Gettr?”