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

• 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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      • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Nobody is interested in your sophomoric “you criticize society yet you participate in it” nonsense. We get it, you’re 14 and think you’re deep.

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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨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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      • pipi1234@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Agreed, but know they have tools that enable them to do it with unprecedented impact.

        In my opinion, the difference is so huge, we might as well think they didn’t manipulate things at all before.

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      • porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, by memory Rupert Murdoch had his hand at that and in Aus and the UK. I’d love to see that reined in again too

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