• Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    It’s a social media thing. Supposedly posts get deprioritized by the algorithm if they contain “family unfriendly” words like kill or drug references. No idea if it’s actually true or just a myth, but it’s why users edit out innocuous words in these screenshots.

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      29 days ago

      I think the correct term is “advertiser unfriendly”.

      I wouldn’t be surprised if that was true though.

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        28 days ago

        Yup the real 1984 is all corpo-advertising driven.

        Well, that and wannabe fascists.