Technology

Well, duh. Antisocial media needs ppl to keep consuming to keep consuming to generate ad revenue. Currently far right are the trending clowns, so that's one explanation. Another's that twatter has always been a cesspool, while tiktok just shows whatever's popular among brain-damaged individuals.

Jokes aside, might as well be a demo of the multiple testing problem, so implying that algorithmic feeds in general do this is premature (not that the article does this, so just a note).

P.s, not defending current algorithmic feeds either; I've personally all but cut those out of my life for good, and advocate for using white-box approaches instead, like what's done in reccomend_from_archive that recommends tracks based on AA's spotify scrape data and listening history/playlist exports.

Anything centralized can and will be used to abuse the population at the behest of the rich and powerful. The open social web is the only answer.

And thank you all for being here.

Algorithmic content is arguably the worst thing to come out of the internet.

It has made it much easier for these companies to manipulate what people see and feed into their fears and delusions.

I do wonder how much of this is just that moderate parties are boring.

US TikTok, and that's the point. Also, we know X is under opposition control. That's no secret.

Thanks for another article to dislodge friends from The Poison(tm).

I am so tired of "journalism" that's just shocked Pikachuing about crap that people already know, and HAVE already known, for YEARS.

It's either a total waste of time, or people are so thick and oblivious that they don't know something that's been staring them DIRECTLY In the face for AGES, and I honestly can't decide which explanation is more depressing.

I don't know how far my mouth can gape from shock, but who you have known

DAE remember all the libs calling for state control of TikTok? Still calling for state control of "social media"?

This is what they gave us.

Liberalism <---> Fascism.