Reporting an upsetting post and getting back to browsing

Lina has forty minutes on the bus every evening, and lately her usual apps have felt like the same ten posts on repeat. A friend mentioned Randomverse, so on Tuesday she opens it in her browser without signing up and just starts swiping.

The first few posts are nothing like her usual feed. A short text about rain in a city she has never heard of. A photo of someone's breakfast table. A long video of a street band. She keeps going, mostly out of curiosity.

A few stops later she finds a post in a language she can't read, with a photo of a handwritten recipe. She wants to keep it, so she creates an account. Now she can save it, and she can use the translate option on the text. The recipe turns out to be for a lentil soup, and she saves two more posts on the way.

Then a post appears that she really does not want to see. It is meant to shock, and it does. She taps report. The post disappears from her feed right away, so even when she scrolls back up to find the soup recipe again, she doesn't run into it. Later she reads that reports go to human moderators who decide what happens next, which is what she was hoping for.

She closes the app for a minute, then opens it again and keeps swiping. The rest of the ride is quieter: a sketch of a bridge, a short clip of a cat, a paragraph from someone about their first week at a new job.

Before her stop, Lina shares a photo of the sunset from the bus window. She spots a typo in her caption right after posting. Editing isn't possible, so she deletes the post and shares it again with the caption fixed. Then she gets off the bus with three saved posts and a soup to try at the weekend.

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