Personally I love when Google Photos pulls together a cute album of my dog who had to be put down a few months back and hits me with that shit on a Monday morning.
For Google Photos you can hide people and pets from memories to help prevent painful ones.
https://support.google.com/photos/answer/9454489
Photos settings > Preferences > Memories > Hide people and pets.
Well shit, I had no idea. Thank you!
Every month Snapchat shows me my parrot that died 2 years ago. Still hurts
The other problem with this, content aside, is the classification of a post as “successful” or “unsuccessful”, implying that how much interaction your post receives is a scoreboard and you should be using the platform solely with the goal of scoring higher in mind. Which is basically exactly what happens in most big Reddit subs, and is a large contributor to the platform growing increasingly shitty.
People used to post on internet forums because they were interested in the discussion, or had something novel to share, and now it’s just to make an imaginary number go up.
If I have a problem I can’t solve, and I make a post, and get 1 upvote and 1 reply that solves my problem, I’d call that post far more successful than a repost of a repost of a cat video that gets 100 replies and 10,000 upvotes.
It’s a bit off-topic, but that’s the main reason why I don’t think that “aggregate scores” (karma) should be ever a thing in Lemmy. Not even optional - because even if you don’t care about karma, the other people around you do it, and they’ll still shit on the same common environment because of karma.
Dunno, I’d consider the fact that I was the 69th upvote to your reply very successful.
How nobody ever thought that this feature should work only on a few whitelisted communities where the possibility of a sad post is small, like pics or funny?
In exjw the chance of a sad post are too high
How nobody ever thought that this feature should work only on a few whitelisted communities where the possibility of a sad post is small, like pics or funny?
Because the administration of Reddit never thinks on the consequences of the half-baked features that they implement. They do it, then wait to see if the users rage. If the users rage, they change something and gaslight the users to cover their own arses.
It was the same with the chat feature, 3y ago. Excerpt from that thread: the admins added a “start chatting” button to /r/rape, then accused the moderators of /r/rape of doctoring a screenshot that showed it. And then edited their comments to remove said accusation.
Starting it a decade after Facebook is actually worse - it means that they had a whole decade to see what goes wrong with it, but still implemented it. This shows that they either 1) don’t really care about the users, or 2) are completely clueless on what they’re doing. (Spoilers: it’s both.)
Busting out an old hood classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OzZxjqKG10
Remember that time you totaled your car? Facebook does!
