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I do wonder how much of this is just that moderate parties are boring.
Also the fact that people with moderate views don't tend to watch political content all that much.
Yeah "centricism" is just privileged fascism. It's the privilege of being completely ignorant and complacent while people are genocided, concentration camped, etc.
Overt fascism definitely drives more clicks.
Keeping food in the supermarkets and having working infrastructure will definitely generate less ad revenue... I mean "engagement" than threatening to kill all foreigners and LGBT people.
"Moderates" are right-wing, just like liberals.
But still boring
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.
Algorithmic content is not bad per se. It's the algorithms that are specifically designed to create division and hate. The people who design these things know what they're doing and are doing it because the outcomes are that they want to achieve.
We have overt fascists literally controlling the internet and people are still spouting complaints about "algorithms". jfc.
Seriously who upvotes this nonsense? This is how we got here.
More than one thing can be bad about the internet at the same time.
Furthermore, the fascists are the one that put the algorithms in place and control them.
It's the same problem.
the fascists are the one that put the algorithms in place.
Actually no. Every single program is an "algorithm". Sorting by date is an "algorithm".
You're literally crying about something that's ubiquitous. And that's literally how we got here.
Do you really want more state control of "social media"? You want these wonderful fash controlling those dangerous algorithms? smh.
I don't want any social media homie
You're barking up the wrong tree
Take a chill pill
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.
US TikTok, and that's the point. Also, we know X is under opposition control. That's no secret.
So is Tik Tok.
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.
You need to verify your hypothesis if you want other people to build on it or everything will eventually crumble down like a house of cards.
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.
The downvotes are coming from liberals that refuse to acknowledge they directly support fascism
Thanks for another article to dislodge friends from The Poison(tm).
I don't know how far my mouth can gape from shock, but who you have known
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.
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