Algorithm

[lonelyislet]

You can see this post in Latest (after 5 minutes). Other than that (I don't know what else they filter by, presumably things to catch some obviously disallowed things), you can see this post. I don't control Dreamwidth, it's not my personal website, but if I did have one, that would hold true. You can see this post at roughly the time that I wrote it. It doesn't show up in your feed 2 weeks later, because the metrics-focused company has decided that it's "good for retention" or "engagement"

I can have many problems hypothetically with the social media platforms on a human level but it's when it gets down to outright fake content and fake representation that it becomes a real problem. A real - let me repeat - tangible, identifiably criminal, prosecutable problem