I guess this is my pessimism about an algorithm really ever working well for me. On FB and other social sites, I'm hesitant to engage any one-off content because my feed becomes flooded with it. I guess if I had more fine-grained control to say that I don't like something and WHY I don't like it, I'd have more confidence that this could be useful .
I mean, Instagram has a “not interested” menu item (behind …), with the additional option 'don’t show posts from ${account}' and “this post makes me uncomfortable”.
They also additionally introduced chronologically sorted “following” and “favorites” feeds. I haven’t had a Facebook in a decade, but after hardly using IG for years, I’ve started using it again. These features have honestly improved my opinion of Meta significantly, you can at least utilize it as a tool now.
My issue is that the controls aren't fine-grained enough for me. I'm not a heavy IG user, so that doesn't matter as much to me. (DISCLAIMER: The only reason I even have IG is because I worked at FB and my team made a couple components used in IG)
Makes sense. They are different use cases as well. On FB, I'm interested in people, not "content", whereas TikTok is about the content, which does require some means of discovery.
