Privacy experts: what's the easiest way to experience what Instagram is feeding others?

wowwoweowza@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 16 points –

Not exactly sure how to articulate this.

My instagram shorts feed feels completely Sci-Fi level manipulative and conditioning.

And I realize that in some ways, I have programmed it.

So it makes me wonder how others are programming and getting programmed by these super manipulative video feeds.

Short of walking up to strangers and asking, “hey, can I compare your feed to mine?” What can someone do to get a more Birds Eye view of what this cancerous infection instagram is doing to society?

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*Disclaimer: not being facetious

You don't need to involve technology to know what manipulative info people are gobbling up. Just watch the public. What they do. What they talk about.

Often, they will unanimously begin discussing the same topic(s) in the flesh all of a sudden. This is how you know it is not an organic process. They did not arrive at that thought through lived experience, but by what they'd seen on a screen.

It is nothing new. The 'feeds' in question were once formerly television.

*Disclaimer #2: This may only really work if you, yourself are sufficiently unplugged from manipulative feed-based media.

This must be why I have no clue wtf people are talking about 99% of the time and checkout on most conversations.

I like your use of "sufficiently unplugged", as we're all plugged in, to varying degrees.

I’m likely not unplugged enough to “grok” this entirely.

But the reminder to completely unplug is valuable. Thank you.

What the OP said is funny and interesting, but the cool calculation is just talk to people IRL and ask them about instagram and what on earth