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ivy

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Certified thrall
I'm ivy and I'm the admin of fedi196.gay
I'm also https://cutie.city/@ivy

She/They
cottagecore Sapphic trans demigirl
some flavor of bi idk

I'm the opposite of a high functioning individual. a low functioning person? non functioning? idk that's too much work to figure out

currently in university for computer science
rust has quickly become my favorite language

hrt 29 Dec 2022

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average intel pc

ivy ,
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huh, didn't expect that

Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds (www.wired.com)

Meta conducted an experiment where thousands of users were shown chronological feeds on Facebook and Instagram for three months. Users of the chronological feeds engaged less with the platforms and were more likely to use competitors like YouTube and TikTok. This suggests that users prefer algorithmically ranked feeds that show...

ivy ,
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it's because they aren't talking about users, it's shareholders. shareholders don't stand to gain near as much ad revenue from the endless algorithm induced scrolling. executives and shareholders hate chronological feeds, not people

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I'm on glitch soc instead of mastodon and I've liked it a lot
it pretty much fixes most of my biggest gripes with mastodon and I hide the counters anyway because the number isn't very important to me

ivy ,
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it's just because the mod tools aren't where they need to be yet and beehaw does a lot of work to protect minorities. the mods weren't really happy with having to defederate and they plan on refederating once the tools are better or we get settled in

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I'm using porkbun for my instance and it's been great
my domain renewal was half google domain's offering price

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