Comment on “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• halcyoncmdr@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not sure if you’re trying to argue that modern social media is a good thing… Because it really isn’t. All of these platforms are actively detrimental to our mental health and destabilizing society. All of them have their billionaire owners manipulating the algorithms to maximize what they want you to see and minimize opposing views, if not outright removing them (like Meta is doing with the ICE List currently).

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Massive corporate social media companies and rightwing billionaires are the problem, not social media.

    Not sure if you’re trying to argue that modern social media is a good thing… Because it really isn’t.

    What are you doing here then?

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Lemmy might fit within the technical definition of social media, but don’t be so obtuse as to equate an anonymous community message board with the likes of Facebook and IG that are tied to your identity, and are designed algorithmically to keep you engaged as long as possible and pressuring you to share more and more of your personal life.

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      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Lemmy might fit within the technical definition of social media, but don’t be so obtuse as to equate an anonymous community message board with the likes of Facebook and IG that are tied to your identity, and are designed algorithmically to keep you engaged as long as possible while pressuring you to share more and more of your personal life.

        then use your brain and analyze this deeper than social media = bad

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    • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Getting my fix, now move over.

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  • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    news networks have been doing this same for centuries

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    • RipLemmDotEE@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No, news networks are not algorithmically curating content specifically for each individual person, based on personal traits that they record based on usage.

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    • porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Humans have been killing each other as long as we’ve existed isn’t an argument to avoid trying to make it happen less

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      • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        just saying billionaires manipulating shit has been the norm for ages, which is why we used to have media-ownership limits…repealed under Clinton iirc

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• Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Billionaires are running the most popular social media sites and utilizing the algorithm to attempt to influence their addicted userbase on a large scale, and succeeded on many demographics and even win elections.

  I don’t think it is a stretch to call it a moral panic, because its not an unbiased and transparent system that is dictating what is seen and spread. It is a huge black box propganda tool.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Except the propaganda mostly isn’t what the “social media addiction” folks are worrying about.

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    • Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Even people who don’t care about usage of propaganda are affected, since these social media addicted folks have brought up how they are getting more unrelated propaganda content exposed to them even if all they want to see is cats and food recipes as an example.

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• Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  nah… mark is clearly an international drug dealer and needs to have all his property seized, and then destroyed while he rots in prison.

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    both things can be true!

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