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		rightbyte on Jan 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The young people sifting through the internet's wo... > How is whitelisting going to work? Facebook and Instagram used to work like that. It only showed you stuff you choose to want to see from those you followed. But there is more money in forcing stuff on people I guess. Hence the algorithms.

saurik on Jan 14, 2024 [–]

The person you are responding to is trying to obtain a 100% success rate on filtering, and explicitly discusses the Facebook model as insufficient as the people you follow might suddenly become porn (due to their account being hacked).

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