The point of a feed is to literally show what you want. If someone wants to fake their age, gender, or wealth for a chance of sliding into someone else's DMs, just to get caught and retaliate by projecting it back on them as the bad person, then that person is a literal psychopath and I hope it doesn't escalate.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The point of a feed is to literally show what you want.

So the algorithm behind the feed is to blame when you get bad suggestions. Btw: showing only perfect matches makes people spend less time on the app and therefore they mix in bad suggestions deliberately. Blame the profit motive.

If someone wants to fake their age, gender, or wealth for a chance of sliding into someone else's DMs, just to get caught and retaliate by projecting it back on them as the bad person, then that person is a literal psychopath and I hope it doesn't escalate.

While this is true, I don't see the relevance.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because when someone has not selected a category for their feed, but that category appears in it, it means those mismatches are appearing because of intentional deception, hoping it works. That's deviant behaviour. And when someone blows a whistle, they should not be the one punished for it.

How is that not relevant to the situation in that original comment? We just making exceptions now?