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The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state

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506 points imakwana | 1 comments | 21 Apr 25 04:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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revskill ◴[21 Apr 25 04:58 UTC] No.43748606[source]▶
With ai, i hope the feed is more useful to me.
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throwaway48476 ◴[21 Apr 25 05:26 UTC] No.43748713[source]▶
The ML model exists to benefit Facebook, not you. It maximizes for your engagement with the platform, not your happiness or usefulness.
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1. fossgeller ◴[21 Apr 25 11:34 UTC] No.43750729[source]▶
Could it be possible to counter it with another ML model that browses your feed?

For example, scraping your feed and presenting to you only the content that corresponds to some pre-defined labels (with a tiny bit of randomness to spice things up).

Although how could the automatic labeling work for videos from the user-end? Hashtags would be the simplest indicators, however also easily misleading.