• WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Meanwhile their algorithm identified a post of mine about chicken breeds and another that leaned leftist as spam and silenced me for a day.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Yup, I got muted for telling someone about audio. There’s a lot of snake oil in audiophile circles, and someone had posted something that was blatantly untrue. I’m a professional audio technician, and I gently hit them with the dreaded “um akshually…”

      Turns out, they were getting ratio’ed pretty hard, because a lot of people were calling them out. And apparently when a bunch of people correct someone, Meta will just start automatically muting anyone who replies, because the comments get too repetitive.

      Which sounds asinine to me; If someone is spreading misinformation, they shouldn’t be able to hide behind the “too many people are disagreeing with me” shield.