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Instagram's New Gender Slider Determines If Your Beach Pics Stay Up (isglitch.com)

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

though internal documents reveal ongoing debate about whether the slider should move left-to-right or top-to-bottom. The company ultimately chose horizontal orientation after testing showed vertical sliders were "too gender normative."

This has to be satire. Right? This is a satire article? FFS, I can't even tell anymore.

[–] 0xD@infosec.pub 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeep. Took me way too long, until the second to last paragraph. That was amazing.